Why this word is great
TAROT — [Noun] A set of 78 playing cards, divided into suits including a permanent trump suit, used for games or mystical divination. Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco, of uncertain origin, possibly from Arabic taraha ("he rejected, put aside"), suggesting the cards' role as a repository for what is cast off or hidden. Unlike "oracle cards" (which embrace freeform symbolism) or "playing cards" (which serve straightforward games), the tarot is a structured mirror, its images both fixed and infinitely interpretable. It is the Fool stepping off a cliff into blank space, the Tower struck by lightning mid-collapse, the Hanged Man suspended in perfect stillness—a system where meaning is not found but made, where every shuffle is a question and every draw an answer half-remembered.