Vocabulary Set 3 (Units 5 & 6) GT English 10

Jocose

Jocose

Cheerful; merry (adj)

Jocular

Characterized by joking (adj)

Festoon

To drape or adorn festively (v)

Fete

To honor with a banquet (v)

Bacchic

Of or related to a wild celebration (adj)

Bacchanal

A drunken party or celebration (n)

Plaintive

Sorrowful; expressing or evoking mourning (adj)

Plaint

A lament or complaint (n)

Elegy

A song or poem memorializing something or someone (n)

Elegiac

Mourning that which is lost or past; sorrowful (adj)

Somnolent

Drowsy; sleepy (adj)

Soporific

Causing sleep or fatigue (adj)

Sopor

Sleep; drowsiness (n)

Languid

Lacking energy; weak (adj)

Languish

To waste away (v)

Languor

A lack of physical or mental energy (n)

Vigilant

On the alert; watchful (adj)

Vigilante

Someone who takes law enforcement into his or her own hands (n)

Acquiesce

To give in (v)

Requiem

A song or religious service for the dead or lost (n)

Quittance

A repayment; a compensation (n)