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  2. Magic systems in games - Wikipedia

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    Spell-slot systems often employ a rationale that the spell is forgotten when cast, [5]: 240 or that the caster has a finite supply of the ingredients required to cast the spell. In the first case, the spellcaster must re-memorize the spell from a source, typically a grimoire. In the second case, the caster must find new ingredients and prepare ...

  3. Magic in Dungeons & Dragons - Wikipedia

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    Spellcasters can only cast a spell they know or have prepared if they have an available spell slot. This mechanic originated out of the Vancian magic system where "the number of memorized spells is strictly limited by the magician's memory capacity in proportion to the spells' difficulty levels, effectively granting a number of spell slots".

  4. English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    In some verbs, the past tense, past participle, or both are identical in form to the basic (infinitive) form of the verb. This is the case with certain strong verbs, where historical sound changes have led to a leveling of the vowel modifications: for example, let has both past tense and past participle identical to the infinitive, while come ...

  5. History of magic - Wikipedia

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    Still others protect the deceased from various hostile forces or guide him through the underworld past various obstacles. Famously, two spells also deal with the judgement of the deceased in the Weighing of the Heart ritual. Such spells as 26–30, and sometimes spells 6 and 126, relate to the heart and were inscribed on scarabs. [38]

  6. Comparative illusion - Wikipedia

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    It does not make sense. (da: 7.9%; sv: 28.0%) Paraphrase (d) is in fact the only possible interpretation of (1); this is possible due to the lexical ambiguity of har "have" between an auxiliary verb and a lexical verb just as the English have ; however the majority of participants (da: 78.9%; sv: 56%) gave a paraphrase which does not follow ...

  7. Postdiction - Wikipedia

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    In cognitive science, postdiction is the justification process that allows a reader to make sense of a concept in a given context. [5] The term was coined by psychologist Walter Kintsch in 1980 [6] and refined by cognitive scientist Afzal Upal in 2005. Heath & Heath used Upal's definition without explicitly citing him in their 2007 book Made to ...

  8. Fantasy Football Fact or Fluke: How to make memories ... - AOL

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    Mayfield wasn’t bad last year. The Bucs have a ton of talent on offense and one of the league’s best offensive lines. A quick-release philosophy plays to Mayfield’s strengths, and they play ...

  9. Contraction (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    A contraction is a shortened version of the spoken and written forms of a word, syllable, or word group, created by omission of internal letters and sounds.. In linguistic analysis, contractions should not be confused with crasis, abbreviations and initialisms (including acronyms), with which they share some semantic and phonetic functions, though all three are connoted by the term ...