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"Alright class... I'm feeling very well, and that means I can also get quite angry with you if you misbehave." She glared at the quidditch players. "That said, consider yourselves warned. Let's start. Who can tell me what the definition of the word noxious is?"
West stuck his hand up, happy to get involved especially because how else could he show he was glad his head of house was better? Yeah.
"Noxious means like....bad or foul or hurtful." Paaaause. Everyone was saying that. So West elaborated into the bits about the word he found most interesting.
"Its one of those words what comes from Latin and actually has a bunch of words what are related to the same roots. It comes from the Latin noxius, meaning 'hurtful' or 'injurious', which is in turn from noxa , what means 'injury', 'damage' or 'entailing liability' and waaay back like waaaaaaaaay back," Like 5th century BC Proto-Indo-European way back? Yeah,
"its related to all them words with 'necro-' in front of them. Death words." Nod.
"Lots of noxious things cause death, or are just gross enough that you think you're gonna die."