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1. miraculous= very effective or surprising, or difficult to believe:

miraculous character

2. antagonism= hate, extreme unfriendliness, or active opposition to someone

3. boredom= the state of being bored

e.g. The two persons become well acquainted, their intimacy loses more and more its miraculous character, until their antagonism, their disappointments, their mutual boredom kill whatever is left of the initial excitement.

4. infatuation= strong but not usually lasting feelings of love or attraction

e.g. No one expected their infatuation with each other to last.

5. intuition= (knowledge from) an ability to understand or know something immediately based on your feelings rather than facts

e.g. I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice, until eventually the results of my theoretical knowledge and the results of my practice are blended into one—my intuition, the essence of the mastery of any art.

6. instinctual= happening naturally, as a result of instinct, rather than being thought about, planned, or developed by training

e.g. He says his decisions that day were instinctual.