pegomancy
Examples
“This was the Pegomancy of the Greeks; who also solicited the answer⟳ of the Nymphs of the Spring⟳, by offerings of bread, stones, or coins, or by dipping in a mirror, and construing the figures which the water had left on it.”
“Needless to say⟳, “midden,” if we are to translate⟳, is the stuff through which one is trying to walk⟳ in that footless stocking while the editors of National Review⟳ are failing to bite⟳ the bullet and forsake⟳ all squalid pegomancy for pedomancy.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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