Vocab 15 Flashcards

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macabre

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(adj.) Gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible. Of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer or uglier aspect. Of or suggestive of the allegorical dance of death.

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Macabre

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(adj.) Gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; horrible. Of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer or uglier aspect. Of or suggestive of the allegorical dance of death.

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Harangue

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(n.) A speech addressed to an assembly; a loud or vehement address, a tirade; formerly, sometimes, a formal or pompous speech. (v.) To make an address or speech to an assembly; to deliver a harangue; to declaim.

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(n.) A speech addressed to an assembly; a loud or vehement address, a tirade; formerly, sometimes, a formal or pompous speech. (v.) To make an address or speech to an assembly; to deliver a harangue; to declaim.

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harangue

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