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sorrowful – experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; “sorrowful widows”; “a sorrowful tale of death and despair”; “sorrowful news”; “even in laughter the heart is sorrowful”- Proverbs 14:13
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scion - a descendent or heir; “a scion of royal stock”descendant, descendent - a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race |
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bulum; see p- in Indo-European roots. Sense 2, by confusion with pablum.]| Noun | 1. | pabulum – any substance that can be used as food
tuck – eatables (especially sweets)
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| 2. | pabulum – insipid intellectual nourishment
food for thought, intellectual nourishment, food – anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
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n, -tn)| Adj. | 1. | adamantine – consisting of or having the hardness of adamant |
| 2. | adamantine – having the hardness of a diamond
hard – resisting weight or pressure
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| 3. | adamantine – impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; “he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind”; “Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him”- W.Churchill; “an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency”
inflexible – incapable of change; “a man of inflexible purpose”
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-knk)nicus, Spartan, from Greek Laknikos, from Lakn, a Spartan (from the reputation of the Spartans for brevity of speech).]i·cal·ly adv.nikos. The English word is first recorded in 1583 with the sense “of or relating to Laconia or its inhabitants.” Laknikos is derived from Lakn, “a Laconian, a person from Lacedaemon,” the name for the region of Greece of which Sparta was the capital. The Spartans, noted for being warlike and disciplined, were also known for the brevity of their speech, and it is this quality that English writers still denote by the use of the adjective laconic, which is first found in this sense in 1589.| Adv. | 1. | laconically – in a dry laconic manner; “I know that,” he said dryly |
sk)sock·y adj.| Noun | 1. | tussock – a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
bunch, clump, cluster, clustering – a grouping of a number of similar things; “a bunch of trees”; “a cluster of admirers”
wisp – a small tuft or lock; “wisps of hair”
hexenbesen, staghead, witch broom, witches’ broom – an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance
coma – (botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)
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k-trz)trizre, alteration of Late Latin cictrcr, to scar over, from Latin cictrx, cictrc-, cicatrix.]a·tri·zation (-tr-zshn) n.| Verb | 1. | cicatrize – form a scar, after an injury; “the skin will cicatrize and it will heal soon” |
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stt, -tt) Lawtus : in-, not; see in-1 + testtus, testate, from past participle of testr, to make a will; see testament.]ta·cy (-t-s) n.| Noun | 1. | intestacy – the situation of being or dying without a legally valid will
situation, state of affairs – the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; “the present international situation is dangerous”; “wondered how such a state of affairs had come about”; “eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation”- Franklin D.Roosevelt
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tr)to·rous adj.to·rous·ly adv.| Adv. | 1. | stertorously – in a noisy and stertorous manner; “he was breathing stertorously” |
sj)-sj, prsj) pre·saged, pre·sag·ing, pre·sag·esgium, from praesgre, to perceive beforehand : prae-, pre- + sgre, to perceive; see sg- in Indo-European roots.]ful (pr-sjfl) adj.| Noun | 1. | presage – a foreboding about what is about to happen
boding, foreboding, premonition, presentiment – a feeling of evil to come; “a steadily escalating sense of foreboding”; “the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case”
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| 2. | presage – a sign of something about to happen; “he looked for an omen before going into battle”
augury, foretoken, preindication, sign – an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; “he hoped it was an augury”; “it was a sign from God”
auspice – a favorable omen
foreboding – an unfavorable omen
death knell – an omen of death or destruction
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| Verb | 1. | presage – indicate by signs; “These signs bode bad news”
augur, auspicate, bode, omen, portend, foreshadow, predict, prefigure, prognosticate, betoken, forecast, foretell
threaten – to be a menacing indication of something:”The clouds threaten rain”; “Danger threatens”
bespeak, betoken, indicate, signal, point – be a signal for or a symptom of; “These symptoms indicate a serious illness”; “Her behavior points to a severe neurosis”; “The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued”
foreshow – foretell by divine inspiration
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