English Words I like beginning with…
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An ancient Roman title for someone who practised divination using entrails.
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Plural form of ‘haruspex.’
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Divination by entrails.
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That thing where you sort of enjoy hating someone.
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Half a line of poetry.
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A line of eleven syllables in a poem.
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The herb equivalent of shrubbery, i.e. the collective name for a collection of herbs growing in a given location.
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A gawky teenage boy.
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A series of words with the same endings.
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Of or pertaining to a homily.
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Of the same substance.
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The state of sharing the same name.
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Like ‘homoiousios,’ this means ‘of the same substance,’ but it is mostly used in Christianity to describe the idea that God the Father and God the Son are made from the same substance.
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US slang for a jail.
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Exhortational.
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To invest oneself in a particular defence mechanism so as to repress another one.
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A type of spiky plant.
This badger’s entrails could be used in haruspicy.
A selection of London herbage.
These beads are homoiousios.