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Priestly.

The belief held by some Christian orders that priests are the mediators between God and humans.

Wisdom.

A type of salad.

Capable of saving or redeeming people.

A type of stone coffin.

A type of gemstone.

Features of a landscape which have been formed by wind eroding snow.

A mythical creature which looks like a cross between a goat and a human.

To run around.

The practice of divination using shoulder bones.

The process of aging.

A type of sword.

A type of historic sword.

An informal game between members of a sports team.

Tuberculosis.

Synchronous or concurrent.

A small room coming off of a kitchen, used for storage of kitchen equipment.

A wall created along the seafront, to protect homes and people from surging waves.

Consistently making an effort.

In linguistics, the smallest unit of meaning.

The phenomenal world, as understood in cultural semiotics, a branch of sociolinguistics.

The sensory system of the body.

Energetically pithy of expression.

Funereal.

A burial chamber.

The ongoing effects of a disease.

A large block of ice with a sharp edge, found in the ocean.

A type of angel in Biblical mythology.

Of or pertaining to seraphs.

A type of leaf with a serrated edge.

A person who likes to use long words.

Occurring after several other items in a list.

A word occurring only in Catullus’ Poem 7, which he wrote to his lover Lesbia. Silphium was a plant that grew in ancient North Africa, where it was used by Greek colonisers of the area as a herb and a perfume. ‘Silphiophorous’ refers to something that is made of, or similar to, silphium. In the poem, Catullus describes Cyrene, the area in which he lives and where silphium grows, as ‘silphiophorous.’

The plural form of ‘simulacrum.’

A resemblance, often used in a derogatory sense to imply that the resemblance is in some way inadequate.

A job in which you don’t have to do much work but you still get paid.

A length of wool or yarn.

Calling shrilly.

Soporific.

A type of edible plant.

Witchcraft.

In Christianity, of or pertaining to salvation.

A female fortune teller.

Shaped like a wedge.

Stability or firmness.

Of breathing: heavily or laboriously.

Spontaneous coordination whereby an action stimulates the production of another action.

A type of resin used in incenses and perfumes.

To wander aimlessly.

A type of shrub or small tree.

Drab; dingy; dull of colour.

A type of embroidery.

The domain of an overlord.

Of a landscape, wooded.

Of a person or creature, residing in a forest or woodland.

Pertaining to a word that is unable to be used on its own.

Using the name of a part of something to refer to the whole of it, or vice versa.

A small part of a text, such as a phrase or sentence.

A contraction of a heart as part of its normal function in a body.