Answer:
1. Before
2. Calm
3. In adverse situations, actions that might have been rejected under other situations may become the best choice.
4. Philosophical
Step-by-step explanation:
1. A premonition is a feeling that something is about to happen. Thus, someone would have a premonition before an event takes place.
2. Mediative, an adjective form of the word mediate, means to resolve or settle conflicts. Hence, if a painting has a mediative quality, it causes the viewer to become calm.
3. Desperate times call for desperate measures, is a proverb, attributed to the Greek physician Hippocrates, which means that in desperate and adverse circumstances, one may resort to using methods or actions which they would never have used in other circumstances.