Nebo Literature
Latin Phrases: tend to add gravitas or significance.
Homicide
To kill another human being is always murder; unless of course it is accompanied by trumpets. Voltaire
The death of one person is a tragedy; the death of 50,000, becomes a statistic. Stalin
There are four kinds of homicides: felonious, excusable, justifiable and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.” Ambrose Bierce
The following words originating in Latin or Greek referring to Killing are less emotive than our more common words.
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Uxoricide fratricide germicide sororicide infanticide insecticide femicide, genocide Matricide filicide parricide patricide regicide suicide homicide omnicide amicide |
Which of the above words relate to killing:
1. a brother
2. one’s self
3. any human being
4. one’s mother
5. insects
6. one’s wife
7. one’s sister
8. everything
9. germs
10. one’s children
11. any infant
12. one’s father
13. any near relative
14. any woman
15. a king
16. An entire race
17. A friend
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