mindmap root((OMNI)) omnivore An animal that eats both plants and other animals.
🌱If we're all natural omnivores, she kept asking herself, then why wouldn't her toddler eat anything but cashews and peanut butter until the age of four? 🌳Human beings seem to be classic omnivores. Originally living as "hunter-gatherers," we hunted and fished when possible but also gathered nuts, berries, fruits, seeds, and roots for much of our diet. We're physically well suited for both tasks; our hands are perfect for picking things, and our build is ideal for running down even the fastest game animals because of our great stamina. Some 10,000 years ago humans began practicing agriculture involving both animals and plants. The other *omnivorous* mammals include chimpanzees, pigs, opossums, porcupines, bears, raccoons, skunks, chipmunks, mice and rats, and skunks. But even many mammals classed as *carnivorous* （See VOR）turn out to be capable of shifting to plant foods when necessary. omnipotent Having complete or unlimited power; all-powerful.
🌱What really scares these men is the nightmare of an omnipotent state, and they think that with their guns they'll be able to keep the government's forces at bay when the time comes. 🌳If you know that *potens* means "power" in Latin （See POT,） it's not hard to guess the meaning of *omnipotent*. In Christian services and prayers, the Latin *omnipotens* is translated as "almighty" and always applied to God. But *omnipotence* in a government or ruler is naturally a bit scary; as a British lord observed a century ago, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." So democracies do their best to make omnipotence impossible. omnibus Of or including many things.
🌱Eager to go home for vacation, Senate leaders assembled an omnibus bill to tie up the loose ends on dozens of unrelated projects. 🌳In Latin, *omnibus* means "for all." So an omnibus bill in Congress packages several measures together, an omnibus survey may poll the public on a wide range of issues, and an omnibus edition of a writer's stories may bring together just about all of them. As a noun, *omnibus* used to mean a large vehicle for public transportation—that is, "for all" who could pay the fare—but around 1900 the word began to be shortened to simply *bus*. omniscient Knowing everything; having unlimited understanding or knowledge.
🌱Brought up in a strict Christian family, he knew that an omniscient God was watching him every second of his life. 🌳*Omniscience* is something that a totalitarian state may try to achieve by means of informers, cameras, and monitoring of electronic communication. If your English teacher tells you that a novel has an "omniscient narrator,'' she means that the voice telling the story isn't one of the characters but instead knows what each of them is doing and thinking, with the point of view constantly shifting from one to another.