Wait, is "suspicious" the opposite of "auspicious"?
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they have a shared root in the middle meaning "to observe" but "suspect" means to observe secretly and "auspice" means observing birds (for omens)
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Ooh fun! So not opposites cause there can be secret bird omens
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yeah, funnily enough the root of suspect doesn't have an inherently negative connotation and the root of auspice doesn't have an inherently positive one. learned something today looking these up!
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