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1. Behave in unusual ways. (It means departing from the ordinary course—exceptional, not normal. The candidate’s aberrant behavior soon caused a steep decline in his ratings.

2. Truthfulness. She doubted the veracity of what he said, but later learned that he spoke the truth.

3. A slaughterhouse. Charlotte seemed to be the only one on the farm who knew that the animals were destined for the abattoir.

4. Logic and reasoning: A syllogism is a form of deductive reasoning (sometimes deceptive): No cat has eight lives; a cat has one more life than no cat; therefore a cat has nine lives.

5. Move things with your mind. Hector was interested in telekinesis because he thought it might help him improve his dice-rolling results.

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