Today's Word "prescience"
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prescience \PREE-shuns; PREE-shee-uns; PRESH-uns; PRESH-ee-uns; PREE-see-uns; PRES-ee-uns\ (noun) - Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
"Mel spent entirely too much time beating himself up over not having had the prescience to acquire the Microsoft stock when the company first went public."
Prescience is from Latin praescientia, from praescio, praescire, to know beforehand, from prae, before + scio, scire, to know.
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