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Illusionist

One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.

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Anticipant 76% connected

Anticipating; expectant; -- with of.

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Anticipator 76% connected

One who anticipates.

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Diviner 76% connected

One who professes divination; one who pretends to predict events, or to reveal occult things, by supernatural means.

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Fantast 76% connected

One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.

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Forecaster 76% connected

One who forecast.

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Futurist 76% connected

One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.

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Predictor 76% connected

One who predicts; a foreteller.

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Prognosticator 76% connected

One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.

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Soothsayer 76% connected

One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

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Intellect 76% connected

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher form…

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Intellectual 76% connected

Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.

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Performer 76% connected

One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a…

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Figure 74% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Figure 74% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Conjurer 92% connected

One who conjures; one who calls, entreats, or charges in a solemn manner.

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Conjuror 92% connected

One bound by a common oath with others.

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Magician 92% connected

One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

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Prestidigitator 92% connected

One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.

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Seer 92% connected

Sore; painful.

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Visionary 92% connected

Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions.

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