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A worshiper of the dead.

1. A student of, or a specialist in, necrology (an obituary notice).
2. A writer of obituaries.

Someone who states that something is not true or false: Elisabeth was a negationist who denied calling her husband a cheater when he took money from their bank deposit to buy some pants and shirts for himself.

A person who declares that something is not true even when it is: George was a negativist who would not agree that the weather was going to be stormy despite the predictions presented by all of the TV reporters.

A person who has a special love of groves of trees: Rupert is a confirmed nemophilist and has purchased a farm with a section of birch trees on it so he can wander peacefully among them. © ALL rights are reserved.

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Someone who works with art, music, and literature to revive or to renew their classical principles or presentations.

Someone who is newly, or recently, married.

1. A lexicographer of new words and expressions or a person who coins or makes up new words.
2. Someone who invents or employs new words.
3. Anyone who introduces, or uses new words, or new senses of existing words.
4. A person who adopts new views, or new doctrines; especially, a new interpretation of sacred writings or views of theology.
5. In psychiatry, someone who produces a new word, often consisting of a combination of other words, that is understood only by the speaker.

This occurs most often in the speech of schizophrenics.

A physician specializing in neonatology.

Any one who uses new words, terms, or expressions.

An advocate or practitioner of nephalism.

Anyone who is a specialist in the subject of clouds.

Someone who specializes in the study of clouds.