Types Of Killing # IELTS Vocabulary
When talking about killings and murders, often people either use the word suicide or murder, no matter what. However, English provides us with a range of vocabulary words to be used in each specific case. Let us have a look at them –
| WORD | EXPLANATION |
| Suicide | intentional killing of oneself |
| Medicide | suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician |
| Autocide | suicide by automobile |
| Murder-suicide | a suicide committed immediately after one or more murders |
| Self-immolation | suicide by setting oneself on fire, a form of extreme protest. |
| Avunculicide | the act of killing an uncle |
| Familicide | a multiple-victim homicide where a killer’s spouse and children are slain. |
| Filicide | the act of a parent killing his or her son or daughter |
| Fratricide | the act of killing a brother, also in military context death by friendly fire |
| Geronticide | the abandonment of the elderly to die, commit suicide or be killed |
| Honour killing | the act of killing a family member who has or was perceived to have brought disgrace to the family |
| Infanticide | the act of killing a child within the first year of its life. |
| Mariticide | the act of killing one’s spouse, especially the murder of a husband by his wife |
| Matricide | the act of killing one’s mother |
| Neonaticide | the act of killing an infant within the first twenty-four hours or month |
| Nepoticide | the act of killing one’s nephew |
| Parricide | the killing of one’s mother or father or other close relative |
| Patricide | the act of killing of one’s father. |
| Prolicide | the act of killing one’s own children. |
| Senicide | the killing of one’s elderly family members when they can no longer work or become a burden |
| Sororicide | the act of killing one’s sister |
| Uxoricide | the act of killing one’s wife |