# 5 What makes a good life
1.hindsight: the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened
💬 In hindsight, it would have been better to wait.
2.schizophrenia: a serious mental illness in which someone cannot understand what is real and what is imaginary
💬 He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
3.octogenarian: a person who is between 80 and 89 years old
💬 In 1986-87, Dukakis starred on Broadway as a Jewish octogenarian (and Marlo Thomas' mother) in Mike Nichols' long-running comedy Social Security.
4.cholesterol: a substance containing a lot of fat that is found in the body tissue and blood of all animals, thought to be part of the cause of heart disease if there is too much of it
💬 An oil that is high in polyunsaturates and low in cholesterol.
5.buffer: something or someone that helps protect from harm
💬 I bought a house as a buffer against inflation.
6.magnify: to make something look larger than it is, especially by looking at it through a lens
💬 Although our skin looks smooth, when magnified it is full of bumps and holes.
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