necromancer
noun/ˈnɛkroʊˌmænsər/
Frequency rank: #18,559 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a person who practices magic by communicating with or raising the spirits of the dead.
Example sentence
The villagers fled in terror when they heard that the necromancer had raised the dead from the cemetery.
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