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V: Unit 5 vocabulary
words and roots
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English
11th Grade
12/10/2012
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"joc"
 Definition
"joke"
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jocose
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adj. cheerful; merry
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jocular
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adj. characterized by joking
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"fest, fet"
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"festive
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festoon
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v. To drape or adorn festively
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fete
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v. To honor with a banquet or feast
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"bacch"
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"from Roman god of wine and celebration"
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bacchic
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adj. Of or related to a wild celebration
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bacchanal
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n. A drunken party or celebration
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"plaint"
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"to lament"
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plaintive
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adj. Sorrowful; expressing or evoking mourning or sadness
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plaint
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n. A lament or complaint
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"eleg"
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"song of lament"
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elegy
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n. A song or poem memorializing something or someone
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elegiac
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adj. Mourning that which is lost or past; sorrowful
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