🇬🇧🇪🇸 necromancy - nigromancia : English Lesson

Meaning of "necromancy" ("nigromancia"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Necromancy is a kind of magic that people in stories use when they try to talk to dead people or spirits. They might ask these spirits questions about the future or try to get secret information. It is usually shown as spooky, dark magic in books, movies, and myths, not as something people do in real life. Because it deals with the dead, necromancy is often seen as scary or bad magic, not friendly or harmless magic.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

The wizard’s necromancy went wrong, and he ended up with a ghost who only spoke in knock-knock jokes.

In the movie, the evil sorcerer used necromancy to summon an army of skeletons who walked like badly programmed robots.

She studied necromancy from a dusty old book, but it was mostly ghosts giving unhelpful life advice.

Ray tried necromancy to ask historical heroes how to be brave, but they told him to start by cleaning his room.

Necromancy appears in many old myths and stories, where people believed magicians could ask the dead about the future, though today it’s considered just a spooky fantasy idea.

In the cold graveyard, Anna lit a candle and whispered to the earth. She used necromancy to call her father's voice; the necromancy answered. Her hands shook as necromancy asked for the lost map, necromancy begged for one last truth, necromancy would not hurt. When a paper slid from a stone, she wept.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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