Why this word is great
ARIOLATER — [Noun] One who practices divination, especially by interpreting omens or signs. From Latin ariolor, hariolor ("soothsayer, fortune-teller") and hariolus ("soothsayer"), of uncertain ultimate origin. Unlike the haruspex, who reads a rigid, gory scripture in entrails, or the clairvoyant, who claims a direct, internal line to the unseen, the ariolater is a scholar of the world's incidental text. She is the woman tracing the frantic auguries of scattered birds across a bruised evening sky, the patient soul deciphering portents in the dregs of tea leaves, the quiet watcher understanding a verdict in the pattern of oil spilled on water. Hers is the stubborn conviction that the universe speaks not in riddles, but in a tongue of whispers we have merely forgotten how to hear.