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   premonition

   /ˌprɛməˈnɪʃn/

   noun

   • 1. a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant: "he had a premonition of imminent disaster"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the sense ‘advance warning’): from French prémonition, from late Latin praemonitio(n-), from Latin praemonere, from prae ‘before’ + monere ‘warn’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. premonitory adjective
   • 2. premonitor noun

   Scrabble Points: 15

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