Mary Roach's "___: Science Tackles the Afterlife" Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a mental representation of some haunting experience
2. someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric
(verb)
1. frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

AFTERLIFE (noun)
1. life after death
SCIENCE (noun)
1. ability to produce solutions in some problem domain
2. a particular branch of scientific knowledge

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