Vocabulary List, entry #4
Here's a word I found in East of Eden last night:preternatural: adj. Out of or being beyond the normal course of nature; differing from the natural. Transcending the natural or material order; supernatural.
"...while she was preternaturally alert in some directions she was completely blind in others." (Found on page 75 ... from a description of the evil girl, Cathy.)
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