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a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead
mirth
great merriment
mottle
mark with spots or blotches of different color
suspicious
openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
frailty
the state of being weak in health or body
jocund
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
obsequious
attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
commendable
worthy of high praise
obstinate
marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield
impious
lacking piety or reverence for a god
vulgar
of or associated with the great masses of people
absurd
inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense
suspiration
an utterance made by exhaling audibly
supposal
a hypothesis that is taken for granted
coronation
the ceremony of installing a new monarch
pester
annoy persistently
melancholy
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
auspicious
indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
satyr
one of a class of woodland deities
canon
a collection of books accepted as holy scripture
truant
one who is absent from school without permission
countenance
the appearance conveyed by a person's face
convoy
the act of escorting while in transit
trifle
a detail that is considered insignificant
virtue
a quality of doing what is right
prodigal
recklessly wasteful
calumnious
harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
scant
less than the correct or legal full amount
sanctified
made, declared, or believed to be holy
purgatory
a temporary state of the dead in Roman Catholic theology
celestial
relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven
enmity
a state of deep-seated ill-will
contrive
make or work out a plan for; devise
knave
a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
perturbed
thrown into a state of agitated confusion
rein
one of a pair of long straps used to control a horse
expostulate
reason with for the purpose of dissuasion
quintessence
the most typical example or representative of a type
epitaph
an inscription in memory of a buried person
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