Anglo Saxon

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  1. bereft
    lacking or deprived of something
  2. blanch
    turn pale, as if in fear
  3. blithe
    carefree and happy and lighthearted
  4. briar
    Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
  5. caesura
    a break or pause in the middle of a verse line
  6. churl
    a crude or uncouth person lacking culture or refinement
  7. elegiac
    resembling or characteristic of a lament for the dead
  8. enthrall
    hold spellbound
  9. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  10. lament
    a cry of sorrow and grief
  11. palimpsest
    a manuscript on which more than one text has been written
  12. sibilant
    of speech sounds forcing air through a constricted passage
  13. thrall
    the state of being under the control of another person
  14. weird
    strikingly odd or unusual
  15. wretched
    deserving or inciting pity
Created on Fri Nov 04 00:09:43 EDT 2011

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