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::: prognosis - forecasted course of a disease; prediction; CF. prognostic
::: prognosticate - predict (according to present indications)
::: obituary - death notice (esp. in a newspaper); ADJ.
::: cascade - small waterfall
::: volition - act of using one's will; act of making a conscious choice; Ex. She selected this dress of her own volition.
::: atypical - not normal; not typical
::: fraught - filled (with something unpleasant); full; Ex. fraught with danger and difficulties; CF. freight
::: dissonance - discord
::: prohibitive - so high as to prohibit purchase or use; tending to prevent the purchase or use of something; prohibiting; inclined to prevent or forbid; Ex. prohibitive tax
::: fatuous - smugly and unconsciously foolish; inane; silly; N. fatuity, fatuousness