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13 Terms for Friday the 13th

Word List with 13 words
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augury

n.,

an omen, token, or indication.

bakers dozen

a group of 13; a dozen plus one: from the former practice among bakers and other tradespeople of giving 13 items to the dozen as a safeguard against penalties for short weights and measures.

folkloric

adj.

based on or resembling folklore:

gregorian calendar

the reformed Julian calendar now in use, according to which the ordinary year consists of 365 days, and a leap year of 366 days occurs in every year whose number is exactly divisible by 4 except centenary years whose numbers are not exactly divisible by 4

numerology

the study of numbers, as the figures designating the year of one's birth, to determine their supposed influence on one's life, future, etc.

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ominous

adj.

portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious:

phobia

a combining form meaning "fear," occurring in loanwords from Greek (hydrophobia); on this model, used in the names of mental disorders that have the general sense "dread of, aversion toward" that specified by the initial element:

prognostication

a forecast or prediction.

soothsayer

a person who professes to foretell events.

superstition

a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.

triskaidekaphobia

fear or a phobia concerning the number 13.

freya

Friday is named for the goddess of love and fertility, sister of Frey, daughter of Njord; one of the Vanir.

knights templar

A member of the Masonic order, Knights Templars; ominous date is believed to originate from King Phillip'sorder to arrest members for brazen acts on Friday, October 13, 1307