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Words Ending in "IST" #3

Can you guess these vocabulary words that end in the letters -ist?
For example, one who drives a car is a motorist
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One who...
Is a...
Sell flowers
Florist
Studies languages
Linguist
Writes long works of fiction
Novelist
Has multiple spouses
Polygamist
Starts fires
Arsonist
Collects coins
Numismatist
Studies the Earth
Geologist
Puts someone into a trance
Hypnotist
Opposes a protagonist
Antagonist
Believes that God created the
world as described in the Bible
Creationist
One who...
Is a...
Believes that there is one single god
Monotheist
Reports on current events
Journalist
Prescribes corrective eyewear
Optometrist
Plays the cello
Cellist
Tends to see things in a negative light
Pessimist
Believes that women should be equal to men
Feminist
Commits blackmail
Extortionist
Seeks attention by exposing their
privates in public
Exhibitionist
Twists their body into unusual positions
Contortionist
Uses a computer keyboard
Typist
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61 Comments
lolrobbielol
+1
Level 53
May 27, 2013
Nudist and naturist could both work one who exposes their privates in public, no?
CardinalSin
+12
Level 79
Dec 23, 2018
Not really - because they are not seeking attention by doing it, whereas an exhibitionist is.
FlickerP
+1
Level 74
Nov 2, 2022
I also tried naturist and nudist although I was pretty sure that they were incorrect due to the reason given by Cardinal above. However, I would argue that an exhibitionist is someone who behaves in a way to attract attention, which would not necessarily mean exposing themselves
courthousedoc
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Level 78
Mar 22, 2015
Ophthalmologist certainly prescribes corrective lenses and needs to be included.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Oct 11, 2015
That will work now
Arp2600
+3
Level 87
Oct 11, 2015
It didn't work for me.
Quizmaster
+2
Level ∞
Oct 12, 2015
Okay, NOW it will work
richiesyxx
+2
Level 73
Aug 7, 2022
I’m not sure this is right. An ophthalmologist is allowed to write prescriptions for eyeglasses, but generally speaking, they don’t. They’re medical doctors who specialise in diseases of the eye, which can be anything from cataracts to ocular oncology. Optometrists may be Doctors of Optometry, but they’re not medical doctors. They tend to provide most primary and optical eye care and would usually be the ones to prescribe and dispense glasses (and detect other issues), whilst an ophthalmologist would mainly provide medical and surgical care. If you did get a prescription for glasses from the latter, it would likely be ridiculously expensive, I would think.
elcampeador
+3
Level 79
Nov 2, 2022
Nothing "needs" to happen. I am sick of this sense of entitlement
halpie
+2
Level 78
Jun 18, 2015
A Biblical literalist also believes that God created the world as described in the Bible.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Oct 11, 2015
Literalist will work now
richiesyxx
+1
Level 73
Aug 7, 2022
I think Literalist might be the only correct answer here? Hindus, for example are creationist, whereas ‘Bible Literalist’ is specific to Christianity and The Bible.

Although, I will have to ‘fess up, I did type ‘creationists.’ I’m keeping the 5 points tho!

foxpenguin
+2
Level 69
Nov 15, 2015
How about oculist? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oculist
Thorvald
+1
Level 71
Feb 8, 2016
Second that
Carry
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Level 63
Mar 9, 2017
I believe it's the better answer too. My optometrist never "prescribed" me corrective eyewear. I only had seeing tests and the result was I needed glasses or new lenses for them but there was never an actual prescription involved.
richiesyxx
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Level 73
Aug 7, 2022
There will have been a prescription, it’s just that you don’t get handed it, in the same way as you might if it was for drugs. The optometrist prescribes a type of lens, with particular specifications (thickness, convexity etc), which then goes to the person actually making the glasses. In a smaller optometrist’s business, the person prescribing may well be the person making them. Or they’ll be made by someone else, but within the same premises. So they don’t need to give you a script to take elsewhere (like a pharmacy), which means in all likelihood, they don’t bother printing one.
ctleng76
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Level 65
Nov 2, 2022
At least optometrist is the name given to the "doctor" that prescribes corrective eyeware here in the US. Is it possible that Carry is from another country and the terms are different there?
panscedar
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Level 68
Feb 6, 2016
Think about accepting fundamentalist for the question about accepting the biblical account.
ctleng76
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Level 65
Nov 2, 2022
Fundamentalist would work if the clue was referring to the bible in general, but the clue specifically calls out the biblical account of creation. I see your point though.
AllenY
+3
Level 69
Feb 6, 2016
Not sure about typist; I mean, sure, while it's probably not as relevant today, surely someone who uses typewriter is also a typist? In fact, aren't they the original typists?
sergeantmalice
+5
Level 56
Aug 4, 2022
It's not like keyboard typists negate the existence of typewriter typists...
Ferbin
+1
Level 77
Jan 31, 2023
Well, you could say typewriters have keyboards on them too.
Senlac
+16
Level 47
Mar 29, 2016
I would also accept "Equalist" for Believes that women should be equal to men. Many would argue that feminists want women to be superior to men!
Saharienne
+22
Level 66
Jun 2, 2017
Unfortunately that is a common misconception about feminism...
kalbahamut
+7
Level 81
Dec 23, 2018
Even more unfortunately, it's not really a misconception at all. Google a bit. You can start with Valerie Solanas in the 1960s but the ideas have become much more pervasive and common these days with the Marxist-inspired Intersectional Feminism movement. There are all sorts of prominent, popular, well-respected self-proclaimed feminists that you can find today calling for male genocide or white genocide or at the very least saying that white men, in order to balance the privilege they have so long enjoyed at everyone else's expense, need to avoid talking too much or working too much or being seen or heard or really doing anything. This is not a paranoid fantasy look it up. These ideas are more and more mainstream even if sometimes they try to disguise them with less obvious sounding arguments.
ctleng76
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Level 65
Nov 2, 2022
I have to agree with kal on this one. Feminism probably was initially intended to be specific to women who fought for equality. But it unfortunately has evolved into something else. Sometimes it is overt, like in the example that kal gave about male genocide. Other times it is more subtle, like the way many sitcom shows on TV have the dad in the family portrayed as the bumbling idiot, and hardly more mature than the children. Or how we see sequels to popular movies being made, only with the strong male lead swapped out for a strong female lead. It isn't enough to attain equality moving forward, they wish to go back and right every wrong from the past.

It's like anything else in life. People who fight for equality, and eventually get it (or at least come close) begin to find ways to keep the cause alive as they see it starting to wane. In these situations, sometimes the oppressed end up becoming the oppressors.

samiamco
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Level 69
Nov 13, 2017
Many people believe the earth is flat, but that does not make it so! However, I would definitely advocate for a more updated definition of feminist, such as "Advocates for equality among the sexes". I can imagine that some more formal feminists may find the current hint problematically quaint.
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Feb 16, 2018
I have a problem with the word "problematic".
kalbahamut
+4
Level 81
Dec 23, 2018
There are all sorts of different people who call themselves feminists and many different ideas about what it means to be one (which is a problem with any big decentralized movement). Many feminists certainly do not preach equality and many promote ideas that are explicitly bigoted, sexist, or discriminatory. I'd call someone who believes in equality to be an egalitarian or perhaps a humanist. I'd call someone who advocates advancing the interests of women a feminist. Though like I said... lots of different conflicting definitions out there. Part of the problem with saying that feminism means working toward sexual equality is that there are still feminists in Western Civilization where sexual equality has already been achieved.
Olober
+22
Level 57
Dec 24, 2018
Kalbahamut, there is not a country in the world in which such equality has been truly achieved. There are many which are legally equal, but at a more personal and societal level every single country still has an imbalance. The problem now is that much of the remaining imbalance occurs due to subconscious thought processes and so people don't realise or believe that they hold any sort of prejudice, or they even believe that men are actually discriminated against as they don't understand that many problems that men face are rooted in sexism against women (e.g. women win custody of children more as people still lean towards childcare being a job for women)
ctleng76
+4
Level 65
Jan 7, 2019
I have to agree with kalbahamut on this one. Most feminists don't truly fight for equality. They fight for an advantage over men which is NOT equality.
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Nov 2, 2022
^ I didn't say most. I said some. I don't know the exact percentage.

Olober: Full legal equality has been achieved for decades and that's what is important. You can't police people's thoughts or attitudes and the fact that men and women are genetically different from one another is... well.. a fact. You can't change that. That's not a sign of inequality or sexism; it's just reality. You're right that men are commonly disfavored in the legal system these days, and that's a problem. Where we can see injustice being done in systems like the courts we should try to correct this, if possible. If anything women in Western countries are substantially more privileged than men at this point, in every metric that actually matters. (though, some forces are trying to take us backward; see: recent USSC decision on Roe v Wade) Full and absolute parity to the point where we no longer see men and women as different should not be the goal. Equality of opportunity and before the law should be.

kalbahamut
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Level 81
Nov 2, 2022
IMO they ought to have legal proceedings where the plaintiff/defendant or anyone else affected by the outcome is not present in the courtroom, the case is laid out, using language that is gender-neutral, "race"-neutral, and a decision rendered impartially based on the facts. It's absurd that something like wearing a nice suit to court can have an effect on the outcome, but it does. Or appearing to be emotional or contrite to the judges or jurists who are not experts on reading human emotion anyway. And while, yes, the law as written might be color blind, and gender blind... judges obviously are not. This doesn't mean that the system itself is inherently racist or sexist, but individual people often are and it's hard to get around that. As bad as it is for your sentencing to be seen as "black" instead of "white" in the US... and it is... it's actually about 10x worse to be male instead of female.
InterAlia
+2
Level 76
Nov 12, 2022
@kal - Equality of opportunity is a commonly stated goal, but it is an impossible standard. Opportunity is deeply intertwined with circumstances that simply cannot be made equal. Hypothetically, imagine two identical children with identical homes and families, one block apart from each other. They attend different public elementary schools because of where the school dividing line is. The schools are in the same district and have equally good teachers, but one is in an older building where the playground soil is laced with lead from years earlier. Lead is known to have a negative effect on impulse control and as a result, the child that went there gets into trouble when the two kids later attend the same high school. Their respective brains no longer work the same way and the domino effect follows - college, jobs, social connections, drug/alcohol use etc. So did the two kids truly have the same opportunity?

That's just one tiny potential variable among an unknowable number of others.

WillemLAif
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Level 76
Jan 10, 2019
Senlac, you must mean egalitarian?

The feminists themselves in all of their goals have revealed that the ideology is NOT for equality. They have always had goals to get MORE for women. Some of these demands have been just and right. Many of the later ones are greedy and poorly thought out or not at all, in regards of consequences. It all has only grown like the gamblers hunger as long as you're 'having a streak', and just recently a respected British feminist and a supporter of the 2nd wave stated "3rd wave killed feminism". There's more on the issue, but any person with half a brain and a search engine at hand can easily see the reality.

Sure, there are some individual layman(-wymin?) feminists who are not really up to speed and who believe it's 'for equality'. It's not. If it were, they'd have men in their clubs making decisions, too. If it were, they'd quit spitting acid on all men and boys. If it were, they'd build bridges, not divide and cause havoc. Etc.

Macaco2
+5
Level 46
May 6, 2019
Some do, but by definition feminism is advocacy for equality of the sexes. Technically those who advocate for superiority aren't feminists.
mf3
+2
Level 88
Feb 11, 2017
Ecologist? Environmentalist? They study the earth
Olober
+1
Level 57
Dec 24, 2018
Ecologists study the relationships that organisms have with each other and with their environments, and environmentalists don't technically study anything- They are simply in favour of environmental improvement and protection. Geologists are specifically defined as ones who study the physical constituents of the Earth
DonTheLamplighter
+4
Level 85
Jun 23, 2017
The Bible does not say that the earth was created in a handful of 24-hour days. Creationists say that the Bible says that, but it, in fact, does not. The Bible uses the word "day" in numerous different ways, only one of which specifically means a 24-hour time period. It has been understood by many scholars for more than a century that the Genesis account allows for each Creative Day being an indeterminate time period that could actually span centuries or millennia.
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Feb 16, 2018
Then why not translate day as "eon" or "epoch", or something similar? I don't know the original Hebrew but, in English, the word day has a specific meaning.
TravelingMama
+2
Level 73
Oct 17, 2019
This view of the matter is usually taken from the verses in Second Peter which day that to God "a thousand years is like a day and a day is like a thousand years," to show that time is not the same for God. Many numbers and time frames in the Bible are symbolic (like the repeated use of the number 40) and probably can't be taken literally in every case. I tend to think the days are not literal 24 hour days.
TWM03
+3
Level 70
Nov 2, 2018
@Don, go and read Genesis 1 and 2. I will sum up the main events in order for you:

God creates "the heaven and the earth".

God creates light.

God creates the sky, which apparently is a "firmament", although I wasn't aware it was hard.

God creates plants.

God creates the sun, the moon and the stars (although quite how all the plants have been photosynthesising without the sun I'm not sure).

God creates fish and whales.

God creates birds and the other flying stuff.

God creates land animals (maybe he was doing a trial run of the mammals with whales, dolphins and bats?).

God creates humans (make and female).

God has a rest, and then makes it rain.

After his rest, God forgets that he has already created humans and proceeds to create them again, this time creating a man first of all.

God makes the Garden of Eden and tells Adam not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge.

God makes some more animals and birds for Adam to eat.

TWM03
+1
Level 70
Nov 3, 2018
Read "male" for "make"
TWM03
+2
Level 70
Nov 2, 2018
Finally, God makes Eve out of one of Adam's ribs.

Anyone who thinks this is literally true if you just ignore a few words is fooling themselves. The order is totally wrong, the whole story is self-contradictory and frankly it is bizarre. Scholars who try to say it is, in really any sense of the word, true, are included in this assessment.

kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Dec 23, 2018
yes. Any serious person knows that, in fact, the world was created from the body of the deceased frost giant Ymir.
TWM03
+1
Level 70
Dec 23, 2018
Heretic! Everyone knows that the universe (and midgits) were made by the Flying Spaghetti Monster! And then he boiled for your sins.
Koopa
+1
Level 80
Sep 20, 2022
If that's the case, God should have hired some contractors to get the job done faster.
BlackLab
+1
Level 66
Dec 23, 2018
I start fires. Am I an arsonist?

Actually, I am a Ornithologist, Philatelist, Philanthropist.

Ornithologist, Philatelist, Philanthropist.

Ornithologist, Philatelist, Philanthropist.

Ornithologist, Philatelist, Philanthropist.

stromae
+3
Level 71
Nov 2, 2022
what
hikikomori
+4
Level 57
Mar 6, 2019
Might want to update or get rid of the feminist one considering that's no longer the goal of feminism
milfl0ver
+1
Level 58
Nov 2, 2022
it is, though
Trepach
+2
Level 47
Mar 12, 2019
I collect coins so I actually got numismatist lol
Jango
+4
Level 64
Jun 25, 2021
I have a problem with your definition of feminist. A feminist believes that women *are* equal to men, and therefore *should be* treated as such
sergeantmalice
+4
Level 56
Aug 4, 2022
...

Are you triggered?

Let's cancel Jetpunk!

HyddenRizz
+1
Level 67
May 7, 2022
I spent ages trying to spell anaesthetist for "puts someone into a trance".

Is this techincally correct or is trance the wrong word for anaesthesia?

Dimby
+2
Level 79
Nov 2, 2022
It counts as a trance only if your anaesthetist gets you to cluck like a chicken.
pillbug
+1
Level 65
Nov 2, 2022
"Writes about current events" would be better for journalist than "reports on," which would made me think first of a radio or TV newscaster.
rocamorar
+1
Level 78
Nov 2, 2022
Your definition would exclude all journalists that do not work in written media.
PHG1960
+1
Level 70
Nov 3, 2022
Feminist is not the right word for a person who believes men and women are equal.
MasterKenobi
+1
Level 61
Nov 9, 2022
Dang! I knew all of them, but missed one, numismatist, because I thought it was spelled "pneumismatist."
bigbob123
+1
Level 79
Dec 21, 2023
should be "sells flowers"
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