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प्रश्न
Why did John’s wife get angry with him? What did she decide to do?
Why is John's wife angry 4nd what does she decide to do?
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उत्तर १
John’s wife is angry because she feels that he is cheating on her with another woman named Helen. She decided to leave John’s house and go back to her grandmother. She also decided to send John a court notice.
उत्तर २
John’s wife got angry with him because she thought that he was having an affair with someone named Helen and was hiding it from her. She felt betrayed after what happened in the Ouija Board party. She decided to leave John and go back to her grandmother. She told John that she was going away and her lawyer would communicate with him later.
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| Apparition | a feeling of anticipation or anxiety over a future event |
| Poltergeist | a reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people |
| Clairvoyance | a conjurer who expels evil spirits by conjuration |
| Crystal Ball | a spelling board device intended to communicate with and through the spirit world, obtaining answers to questions |
| Eerie | beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation |
| Medium | any of a set of 22 playing cards bearing allegorical representations, used for fortune telling |
| Transmigration | a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, a ghost, spectre or phantom |
| Psychic | so mysterious, strange or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| Ouija Board | the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses |
| Exorcist | a person through whom the spirits of the dead are alleged to be able to contact the living |
| Premonition | a globe of quartz crystal in which images, believed to portend the future, are supposedly visible to fortune tellers |
| Paranormal | to pass into another body after death: going from one state of existence or place to another |
| Tarot Card | capable of extraordinary mental processes, such as extrasensory perception and mental telepathy |
| Vampire | German word, meaning "noisy ghost"-a troublesome spirit that announces its presence with unexplainable sounds and the creation of disorder |
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a) _____________________
b) _____________________
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