(d) Sorcery is related to Necromancy Grotesque means distorted, distasteful and ugly; macabre means gruesome and deathly. Classics are immortal although from the past; ruins are decayed or dead remains of the past. History studies past events with then alive people; Palaeontology studies the dead and fossilised organisms. Sorcery pertains to the practice of witchcraft or magic; Necromancy is black magic through communication with the dead. Marriage is a ceremony of the union of two souls; Funeral is the ceremony of death or escape of the soul from the body. Science is the study of the natural world; Thanatology is the science of death and the dying person(s). The above analysis of the relationships reveals that while all the words on the right pertain to death, only sorcery among the ones on the left is displeasing and distasteful like grotesque.