More morbid words

Mrs. Newport (United States of America)
Continuing with the theme of death and dying...
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  1. necromancy
    conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying
  2. necrobiosis
    the normal degeneration and death of living cells
  3. necrosis
    the localized death of living cells
  4. innocuous
    not injurious to physical or mental health
  5. inoculate
    inject or treat with the germ of a disease to render immune
  6. innocent
    free from sin
  7. necropolis
    a tract of land used for burials
  8. necrology
    a list of people who died recently
  9. nectar
    a sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators
  10. hallow
    render holy by means of religious rites
    All the treading on some of golf’s most hallowed grounds seemed a bit sacrilegious.
  11. decay
    the organic phenomenon of rotting
    The honeycomb of huge voids, created by burials shifting and decaying, was a problem the Victorians had also discovered more than 100 years earlier.
  12. cadaver
    the dead body of a human being
    By Monday morning, helicopters circled overhead as cadaver dogs combed through the brush below.
  13. corpse
    the dead body of a human being
    Nineteen Tyrolean men alive today are related to a 5,300-year-old "iceman" whose frozen corpse was found preserved in the Italian Alps.
Created on Mon Oct 14 14:32:38 EDT 2013 (updated Wed Oct 16 16:04:27 EDT 2013)

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