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    1.2Sorrow

    affliction, crestfallen, dolorous, melancholy, gloomy

    affliction > afflict

    (affliction)- a state of pain, distress, or grief; misery, (; ; ;); Here I was brought into great affliction, and to pass through theseverest trial that I ever experienced before or since. The Power of Faith;

    (afflict)- to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly orgrievously, ( / / ); He was greatlysurprised to see me so much afflicted, and comforted me in the best manner

    he could, not thinking me so bad as I was. Autobiography of Madame Guyon;anguish = torment {excruciate = torture}

    (anguish)- excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain, ( ; ); It was with a suppressed anguish which isindescribable that he sat there, with his face covered, looking this

    approaching misery in the face. Phoebe, Junior;

    (torment)- to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain, ();The intolerable thirst with which the troops were tormented, even onthis first march, was but ill allayed by brackish and unwholesome water.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon;

    (excruciate)- to inflict severe pain upon; torture, ( ); The excruciated patient was having his wet bandages foldedacross his bruises, and could not bear a motion of the mind. The Adventuresof Harry Richmond Volume 7;

    anguish^ angst = anxiety (anguish)- excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain, (

    , ); In the excess of their anguish, they turned forcomfort to their saintly friend, beseeching her to come to them without delay.

    The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation;

    (angst)- a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish, (, );I know

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    of no evidence that atheists have any general tendency towards unhappy,

    angst-ridden despond. The God Delusion;woe : adversity = hardship ~ throes : tribulation : fell

    (woe)- grievous distress, affliction, or trouble, (; ; ); Thecause of his woe is a telegram, which he is regarding from all points of thecompass, as if in hopes of making it send him better news;

    (adversity)- adverse fortune or fate; a condition marked by misfortune,calamity, or distress, (; ); After many storms of adversity,our author spent the evening of his days in ease and serenity. The Lives of

    the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland;

    (throes)- any violent convulsion or struggle,( ); Theserpent shrieked in its death throes, and its cries reached its fellows. The

    Seventh Gate;

    the pains of childbirth, ( ); the agony of death; (trubulation)- grievous trouble; severe trial or suffering, (- );

    And tribulation, anguish, and despair, will seize on "every soul of man" who

    had neglected or despised them. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4;

    (fell)- fierce; cruel; dreadful; savage; The newspaper told of the tragicspread of the fell disease;

    crestfallen = dejected = downcast ~ disheartened : desperate = despondent ~forlorn = bleak : pessimism

    (crestfallen)- dejected; dispirited; discouraged, (; ); Helooked crestfallen, his kindly and well-favoured countenance beingoverspread by an expression of disarmingly innocent penitence.--It weighed

    on me. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance; having a drooping crest or head; (dejected)- depressed in spirits; disheartened; low-spirited, (;

    ); He became thoughtful and dejected, and one day made known toCipriani his deliberate intention to shoot the Governor the first time he came

    to Longwood The Tragedy of St. Helena;

    (downcast)- directed downward, as the eyes, (( ) , ); dejected in spirit; depressed,(( ) ; ; ;

    );This made both of them look exceeding downcast, and chew thebitter quid of disappointment. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale;

    (dishearten)- to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage, (; ); Heredity bugaboos dishearten, enervate, encourage

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    excesses and neglect. Civics and Health;

    (desperate)- reckless or dangerous because of despair or urgency, ( ; ); The battlenow became desperate, the Indians concentrating all their forces against the

    column going round the lake. Reminiscences of a Pioneer; having an urgent need, desire, etc.; desperate for attention; extreme or excessive,desperado; (; ; ; ); (despondent)- feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection,

    discouragement, or gloom, (; ; -); I was grown timidand despondent, and could not help fearing that some dreadful calamity

    awaited us there. Agnes Grey;

    (forlorn)- desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling,condition, or appearance, ((, ) ; ; );

    lonely and sad; forsaken, (; ; ; ) ; Beautifulmaiden lost on the range--forlorn, homesick, wretched, scared. PrairieFlowers;

    (bleak)- bare, desolate, and often windswept, (; ; ;; ); It was a day in early November -- bleak,bitter, and gusty, with whirling snow; most persons were indoors. The

    Boys' Life of Mark Twain; cold and piercing; raw; without hope or encouragement; depressing; dreary,

    (; ;); Just as bleak are the projections for consumption tax revenuefor 2009, which is estimated to drop 11 percent;

    (pessimism)- the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad orundesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc., (; ); To counteract the tendency toward pessimism, his resourcewas to develop his sense of humor, to create an atmosphere of gayety, by

    which he was enabled to meet people on a common plane. Beethoven A

    Character Study;

    devastate = desolate > desolation (desolate)- barren or laid waste; devastated, (); The plunderers

    desolated the countryside, burning firms and carrying off the harvest;

    deprived or destitute of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited, ( ;; ); The widow never returned to the desolated homestead. The Reign of Andrew Jackson;

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    solitary; lonely,(); a desolate place; dreary; dismal; gloomy,(, ); desolate prospects; (desolation)- the state of being desolated, (); devastation; ruin, (); a drought that brought desolation to the region; dreariness; barrenness, ( ); deprivation of companionship; loneliness, (; ); sorrow; grief; woe; a sense of utter desolation following the death of his

    parents;dysphoria # euphoria^ eugenics

    (dysphoria)- a state of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or fidgeting;The most commonly reported characteristics of a hangover include headache,

    nausea, sensitivity to light and noise, lethargy, dysphoria, and thirst;

    (euphoria)- a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimesexaggerated in pathological states as mania, ( ;); It is a kind of euphoria, a joy of war, lust for revenge, drunkennesson power and burial of the Jewish command "Do not be joyful when your

    enemy falls";

    (eugenics)-the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selectivebreeding (especially as applied to human mating);

    hapless = wretched = woeful = woebegone = pathetic > pathos = poignancy >poignant

    (hapless)- unlucky; luckless; unfortunate, (; ); He thought ofCarlos originally as a hapless youth having a sort of natural right to rebel.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller;

    (wretched)- very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable;pitiable, (; ; );When one is wretched, there is apleasure in being entirely wretched. The Hoosier Schoolmaster;

    (woeful)- full of woe; wretched; unhappy, (; ;);The fatal cry of sauve qui peut was heard everywhere: the Frenchwere now flying pellmell in the most woeful confusion. The History of

    Napoleon Buonaparte;

    (woebegone)- beset with woe; affected by woe, esp. in appearance,(; ; ); I shall never forget themelancholy, woebegone faces of my captain and brother officers on our re-

    assembling on board. Sketches From My Life;

    (pathetic)- causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.;pitiful; pitiable, (; ); His face was very like that of the young

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    negro in Watteau's drawing--pathetic, wistful, north-bitten. The Lost Girl;

    (pathos)- the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature,music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or

    compassion, ( ); Simplicity and a pervading, appealing pathos are

    the qualities transmitted to its lines by the poet." My Reminiscences; (poignancy)- quality of being deeply moving; keeness of emotion, (;

    ); The tenderness shrills to such exquisite poignancy that itbecomes a universal cry, the soul's lament for traitorism: The pity of it,Iago! The Man Shakespeare;

    (poignant)-dont keep empty space, delete the wordspathos bathos = anticlimax

    (bathos)- displaying or characterized by bathos; ( ); The last line is adelightful bathos, adding immensely to the completeness of the catastrophe. Grain and Chaff from an English Manor;

    (anticlimax)- an event, conclusion, statement, etc., that is far lessimportant, powerful, or striking than expected, ( , , ); A sense ofexasperated anticlimax set in as Mervyn disappeared from sight. An

    Autobiography; a descent in power, quality, dignity, etc.; a disappointing, weak, or

    inglorious conclusion; After serving as President, he may find life in

    retirement an anticlimax; a noticeable or ludicrous descent from lofty ideas or expressions to

    banalities or commonplace remarks, ( ); We were amused by the anticlimax of the company's motto: ForGod, for country, and for Acme Gasworks;

    bereavement > bereaved = bereft = lovelorn

    (bereavement)- to deprive and make desolate, esp. by death, ( ); Who is so fitted to sing praises to Christ as he who haslearned Him in hours of bereavement, disappointment and despair? The

    Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss;

    (bereaved)- (of a person) greatly saddened at being deprived by death of aloved one, ( ); She appeared bereaved, as if something hadhappened which she could not begin to understand. A Funeral In Blue;

    (bereft)- deprived of; lacking, ( ; ); And this morning she wasfeeling bereft, a great emptiness somewhere deep inside her. Mary Balogh

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    - Unlikely Duchess;

    (lovelorn)- being without love; forsaken by one's lover, (-);Thenhe behaved just like a lovelorn beau, when his best girl comes near. WelshFairy Tales;

    dolorous = lachrymose = lugubrious ~ plaintive = mournful = doleful^ doldrums (dolorous)- full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous;

    mournful,( ; ); The refrain of Here lie the Remains hauntedme like a dolorous song. The Three Brontes;

    (lachrymose)- suggestive of or tending to cause tears; mournful,( ;; ); Many men in their cups become lachrymose, otherssilly, and some combative. Red Rooney The Last of the Crew;

    (lugubrious)- mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected,exaggerated, or unrelieved manner, (; ); Brooker's facewas lugubrious, like a Methodist preacher who revelled in hell-firepredictions. Sharpe's Enemy;

    (plaintive)- expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful, ( ; ; ); All their songs are plaintive, and contain modulations ofthe voice so mysteriously charming in effect, and so good in tone, that they

    really affect one profoundly. In the Forbidden Land;

    (mournful)- feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful; sad, (;);One by one, the quiet essays and mournful-seeming stories came

    forth, like drops from a slow-distilling spring. A Study Of Hawthorne; (doleful)- sorrowful; mournful; melancholy, (; ); The place

    is doleful, and a funeral scene on the only sunless day I experienced in Ladak

    was indescribably dismal. Among the Tibetans;

    (doldrums)- a dull, listless, depressed mood; low spirits, ( ;; ); If a banquet would lift him fromthe doldrums, they would throw the most lavish banquet that had ever been

    seen in Silvanesti. Dragons Of A Lost Star; a belt of calms and light baffling winds north of the equator between the

    northern and southern trade winds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,( );

    melancholy : jeremiad : ululate = wail

    (melancholy)- a gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual or prolonged;depression, (; ; ); The reason forher melancholy was evident to any one who knew her father's history.

    Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V1;

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    (jeremiad)- a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint, (, ; ); The intensity of the eyes and thedefiant tone bewildered the doctor, who found his well-

    constructed jeremiad without a platform. The Ragged Edge;

    (ululate)- to howl, as a dog or a wolf; hoot, as an owl; to utter howling sounds, as in shrill, wordless lamentation; wail;Dolefully,

    he ululated a final, forlorn whistle of farewell. Diuturnity's Dawn;

    (wail)- to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitchedor clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering, (, ); The lastcame out in a wail, and she clapped her hands over her mouth, only belatedly

    realizing that she had blurted out far more than she should have. The

    Shadow Of The Lion;funereal funeral

    (funereal)- mournful; gloomy; dismal, (; ; ); Thedrapes, dark `red against the dark brown wooden walls, gave the room analmost funereal atmosphere. The Shadow Of The Lion;

    (funeral)- the ceremonies for a dead person prior to burial or cremation;obsequies, (; );He was buried in the cemetery of ChristChurch, Philadelphia, and his funeral was attended by more than 20,000 of

    his fellow-citizens. Life and Times of Washington;

    (mortician) funeral director, ( ); The mortician prepared thecorpse for burial;

    gloomy = sulky = drab = dreary = disconsolate = glum = sullen {dour} =saturnine = dark = morose = moody > moodiness

    (gloomy)- dark or dim; deeply shaded, (; ); Your skiesmay be gloomy, and misty your mornings, Life and Remains of John Clare;

    causing gloom; dismal or depressing,); (; His victories werenever accompanied with one gloomy, relenting thought. Memoirs of Aaron

    Burr;

    (sulky)- marked by or given to sulking; sullen, ( ; ;);

    gloomy or dull; When he was not singing, he stood looking like a sulky child. The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;

    (drab)- dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc, (; ;); I left the shop feeling dowdy and drab, and mildly apprehensive. A Monstrous Regiment of Women - Laurie R. King - Russell-Holmes 02;

    having the color drab,( );

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    a low, sluttish woman, ) ; (; (disconsolate)- sad, without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy;

    inconsolable, ) ; (;There was, however, no help for the disconsolate landlord, and Telford left

    the Salopian to take possession of his new house at 24, Abingdon Street. The Life of Thomas Telford;

    (glum)- sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected, ); (; "He was acharming mixture of glum and glee )("--Lillian Hellman;

    (sullen)- showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve,( ; ); Her expression was still fairly neutral-but hereyes held a sullen, if suppressed, fury. Burning Water;

    persistently and silently ill-humored; morose,); ; (; Sodeep and sullen were the clouds that we were obliged to light the candles.

    Last of the Great Scouts The Life Story of William F Cody;

    (dour)- sullen; gloomy; severe; stern, ); ; (; A portrait ofLanda in the introduction showed a dour, disapproving man, lips tight, eyes

    downcast. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine;

    (saturnine)- sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn, ); (;His entire physiognomy was interestingly saturnine--even cadaverously pale.

    The Works of Edgar Allan Poe Volume 5;

    (morose)- gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood, );; -; (; His most gloomy moods were rather abruptand fitful than morose, and his usual bearing was calm, soft, and even tender.

    Eugene Aram Volume 01;

    (moodiness)- given to gloomy, depressed, or sullen moods; ill-humored,); ; (; He had that mix of moodiness,machismo and vulnerability that audiences have always looked for in their

    favourite "method" actors;dark : swarthy = dusky = brunette

    (swarthy)- (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark, ) ; ; (;His complexion was swarthy, and his skin shriveled and yellow even then. The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln;

    (dusky)- somewhat dark; having little light; dim; shadowy, ) ; ;(; He towered beside the altar, dusky, naked,with a face like a carven image. The Hour of the Dragon;

    (brunette)- (of hair, eyes, skin, etc.) of a dark color or tone, )(; Her

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    hair, brunette, darker than I remembered, had been stylishly cut and it gave

    her the appearance of looking much younger. The Rules of Attraction;

    remorse, deplore pine, redemption

    self-reproach = self-reproof = compunction = remorse = reproach

    (self-reproach)- blame or censure by one's own conscience;I feel humiliatedbefore myself, because I seek in vain release from this grief of self-reproach.

    Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt;

    (self-reproof)- the act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct byone's own judgment;He assumed a tone of raillery, which is, perhaps, the

    readiest mode of escaping from the feelings of self-reproof. Woodstock; or,the Cavalier;

    (compunction)- a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience causedby regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse, (; ); He was so much addicted to compunction, andinflamed with heavenly desires, that he could never say mass without tears.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints;

    (remorse)- deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction, ( ; ; ); I have felt the same remorse, the samebludgeoning sense of guilt. Highland Ballad;

    (reproach)- to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure,(); Lyoff renounced his unrealized dreams with silent reproach, andSergei with morbid misanthropy. Reminiscences of Tolstoy;

    contrite = rueful = remorseful = repentant = penitent > impenitent : penance

    (contrite)- filled with a sense of guilt and the desire for atonement;penitent, ( ; - ); Hewas contrite, and yet no tear was in his eye, no gentle word on his lips.

    Sintram and His Companions;

    (rueful)- causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable, ( ; );Darby's tone was so rueful, his expression one of such patient forbearance

    towards base treachery, that his aunt laughed outright. Two Little TravellersA Story for Girls;

    (remorse)- deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction, ( ; ; ); I have felt the same remorse, the samebludgeoning sense of guilt. Highland Ballad;

    (repentant)- repenting; penitent; experiencing repentance, ( );Hedeclared himself thoroughly repentant--that this was his first, and would be

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    his last crime--but who can trust the good resolutions of a gambler! Life inMexico;

    (penitent)- feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposedto atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite, (

    ); Austin was very penitent, and promised he'd neverbe unpunctual again if he lived to be a hundred. Austin and His Friends; (impenitent)- not feeling regret about one's sin or sins; obdurate,

    ( ; ); Indeed a hard heart is impenitent, andimpenitence also makes the heart harder and harder. Works of John Bunyan Complete;

    (penance)- a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin, ( - ; ); The most popular formof penance was the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, long and painful as it was.

    Beacon Lights of History;lament {elegy}

    (lament)- to feel or express sorrow or regret for, ( , );The song's lyrics take the form of a first-person lament, as the singer describes

    his struggles to overcome loneliness and poverty in New York City;

    (elegy)- a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or alament for the dead, (); The prevailing tone of the compositionrather is that of an elegy--the burial of fond hopes. The Pianolist A Guide forPianola Players;

    dirge {requiem = threnode = coronach} (dirge)- a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in

    commemoration of the dead, ( ); "Life iswhat we make it--an anthem or a dirge, a psalm of hope or a lamentation of

    despair."A Princess in Calico;

    (requiem)- any musical service, hymn, or dirge for the repose of the dead,( ); It was a requiem,a dirge, a moan, a howl a wail, a lament, an abstract of everything that is

    sorrowful and hideous in sound. Charles Dickens and Music; the Mass celebrated for the repose of the souls of the dead; (threnode/ threnody)- a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, esp. for the

    dead; dirge; funeral song;

    (coronach)- (in Scotland and Ireland) a song or lamentation for the dead;dirge;The dismal coronach resound. The Lady of the Lake;

    deplore = expiate = atone = rue = regret = repent = mourn = plaint = lament =bemoan = bewail = dirge

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    (deplore)- to regret deeply or strongly; lament, ( ; ); I confess I have much to deplore, and much forwhich to be thankful. Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men;

    to disapprove of; censure,( ); (expiate)- to atone for; make amends or reparation for; I have many sins

    to expiate, and though I be deathless, life is all too short for the atonement.

    Warlord of Mars;

    (atone)- to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or foran offender, (; ; ); Fasting allows usto atone, leads us toward change and humbles us before the Almighty;

    (rue)- to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly, ( ; ); We had numerous chances over the game and we were left to rue the

    fact that we missed them;

    (regret)- to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment, etc.),( ; ; ; ; ; ; );The heart at suchmoments tries to be grateful without regret, and hopeful without indifference.

    Father Payne;

    (repent)- to feel sorry, self-reproachful, or contrite for past conduct; regretor be conscience-stricken about a past action, attitude, etc., (/ ; );If he has anything to repent, it is not to the worldthat he confesses. John Knox and the Reformation;

    (mourn)- to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, oranything regretted); deplore, ( ; ); To humanreason the death of him we mourn was untimely. Memorial Addresses on the

    Life and Character of William H F Lee;

    (plaint)- a lament; lamentation, (); Even in her inmost thoughtsher plaint was this,--that he, her son, should be doomed to suffer so deeply

    for her sin! Orley Farm;

    a complaint, ( );It begins with a plaint, that is full of cynicdespair; thence it breaks suddenly into a cheerful andante. Contemporary

    American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country; (bemoan)- to express distress or grief over; lament, ( ); The

    mother bemoaned the death of her beloved son;

    to regard with regret or disapproval; What I bemoan is the growingprevalence of the brutal truth. Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories;

    (bewail)- to express deep sorrow for; lament, (() ;

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    ( )); The result was that he wandered, half-distracted, like Lear, bewailing the wound at his heart which a daughter's

    hand had given. The Adventure of Living;

    (dirge)- a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning incommemoration of the dead, ( ); "Life iswhat we make it--an anthem or a dirge, a psalm of hope or a lamentation ofdespair."A Princess in Calico; expiate expatiate = expound = exposit = explicate = elaborate = dilate

    {distend} = lucubrate

    (expatiate)- to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description ordiscussion, ( ); It is unnecessary to expatiate onthe effect of this downright refusal of the woman's proposals. TheDeerslayer;

    (expound)- to explain; interpret,( ; ); But it is a craven apology if we stoop to expound: we are seen

    as pleading our case before the public. Lord Ormont and His Aminta Volume 1;

    (exposit)-to expound, as a theory, cause, or the like; However many of theviews they exposit are rejected by mainstream science and have been

    repeatedly refuted. Harry Clarke;

    (explicate)- to make plain or clear; explain; interpret, ( ; ); There is something of the snake eating its own tail

    here, since logical probability was supposed to explicate the confirmation ofscientific theories. Interpretations of Probability;

    (dilate)-to make wider or larger; cause to expand, ( );Her eyes began slowly to dilate, and she shivered as though with cold. TheMalefactor;

    (lucubrate)-to write in a scholarly fashion; produce scholarship; To loungeand lucubrate, to prate and peep; Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1;

    to work, write, or study laboriously, esp. at night;languish languid

    (languish)- to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade,( ; ; ; -

    ); As long as global companies are afflicted by huge capital shortages,stock markets are likely to languish or grind downward, analysts say;

    (languid)- lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow, (; );Her manner was extremely languid, as of a person suffering from nervous

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    exhaustionMiss Ludington's Sister;

    lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent,(; );pine = yearn = yen = languish : longing = nostalgia

    (pine)- languish, decline, long for, yearn, ( , ); His wife, who had always beenmore devoted to her children than her husband, pined, and died also. PaulFaber, Surgeon;

    (yearn)- to have an earnest or strong desire; long, ( ; ); The fighting spirit inhim yearned, and in a moment his victim was caught up in a crushing

    embrace. The Man in the Twilight;

    (yen)- a yearning for something or to do something; (longing)- prolonged unfulfilled desire or need; (nostalgia)- longing for something past;

    pine^ repine = grouse = complain complaint = yielding

    (repine)- to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain, ( ; ); "Don't repine -- nerve yourself with resolution, and all will be well!"An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith;

    (grouse)- to grumble; complain, ( ; );My only grouse was the slightly under-portioned serving of beef compared to

    the rice;

    any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae, ( );

    (complaint)- an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure,resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding, (; );Your complaint is against fate and humanity rather than against the poet

    Tennyson. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning;

    (yield)- to give up or surrender, ( ; ); Some of Roosevelt's critics construed his yielding, at the last moment,as evidence of his being ruled by Platt after all. Theodore Roosevelt An

    Intimate Biography; to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation,

    ( ); This crop ranges from 25 to65 bushels per acre, and the difference in the yield is to be attributed to the

    manner of cultivation; redemption = salvation > salvage = relieve

    (redemption)- repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or

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    before maturity (as when a corporation repurchases its own stock);

    the act of purchasing back something previously sold; (salvation)- the state of being saved or preserved from harm; (salvage)- compensation given to those who voluntarily save a ship or its

    cargo, (, ); Their livelihoodfrom salvage, as may be supposed, is very precarious. The Lifeboat;

    (relieve)- to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.), (; (, , ) , , ); Heshrugged his shoulders in an attempt to relieve some of the growing soreness

    from the heavy pack. The Order War; restitution = redress = amends = damages = reparation = fix = compensation =

    indemnification > indemnity

    (restitution)- reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation forloss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification, ( ); In cases where the victim did not want restitution, the guiltyparties had no obligations imposed on them;

    (redress)- compensation or satisfaction for a wrong or injury, ( ; / / ); He promptly laid before theLegislature a petition for redress, setting forth the facts of the case and the

    motives of his rival. Great Fortunes and How They Were Made;

    to adjust evenly again, as a balance, ( ); Thepeople have sore grievances, and they do not get the redress which is their

    due. The Story of Louis Riel: the Rebel Chief; (amends)- reparation or compensation for a loss, damage, or injury of any

    kind; recompense, ( ; ; ); The next night the fickle Romansmade ample amends, for the opera was concluded amid the warmest

    applause, even from the friends of Paisiello. The Great Italian and French

    Composers;

    (reparation)- the making of amends for wrong or injury done, ( ;

    - ); Their repentance

    consisting in a visible and manifest reparation, they lose the colour of alleging

    it both to God and man. The Essays of Montaigne Complete;

    (fix)- to repair; mend,(; ; ); (indemnification)- something that serves to indemnify; compensation,

    ( ; ); The only means to get this indemnification is therestoration of Hungary to its independence by a new revolutionSelect

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    Speeches of Kossuth;

    (indemnity)- protection or security against damage or loss, ( ; ; ); As soon asthe indemnity was paid--and it was an indemnity that could be paid in one

    lump sum--Prussia evacuated the occupied territory. Peaceless Europe; redress : remediable = reparable

    (redress)- compensation or satisfaction for a wrong or injury, ( ; / / ); He promptly laid before theLegislature a petition for redress, setting forth the facts of the case and the

    motives of his rival. Great Fortunes and How They Were Made;

    to adjust evenly again, as a balance, ( ); Thepeople have sore grievances, and they do not get the redress which is their

    due. The Story of Louis Riel: the Rebel Chief;

    (remediable)- capable of being remedied, (; ;); If the esophageal stenosis is not readily and quickly remediable,gastrostomy should be done immediatelyBronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy AManual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery;

    (irremediable) - not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair, (); Pastmistakes are irremediable, and it behooves me to consider only the future.

    Infelice; amend ~ emend > emendation

    (emends)- to edit or change (a text), ( ); Lumsden himselfnever emends the text. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography;

    to free from faults or errors; correct; (emendation)- a correction or change, as of a text, ();

    This emendation is ingenious enough to deserve to be true. Notes toShakespeare Volume 01: Comedies;

    compensation > compensate > compensatory

    (compensate)- to counterbalance; offset; be equivalent to, ( ; );

    (compensatory)- serving to compensate, as for loss, lack, or injury,( ); Once the stipulated compensatory arrangements have beenmade, Luna shall be free and sovereign. The Stars Are Also Fire;

    fix : anchor : ensconce ~ embed

    (anchor)- to fix or fasten; affix firmly, ( ); The British beganbombarding the small island from a fleet of warships anchored offshore;

    (ensconce)- to settle securely or snugly, ((, , )

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    ); Sconce and ensconce are constantly used figurativelyfor _hide Hamlet;

    (embed)- to surround tightly or firmly; envelop or enclose, ( ); These paths become fixed, embedded, and ingrained only whennerve currents pass over them time and time again. Human Traits and theirSocial Significance;

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