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  1. excavate
    recover through digging
  2. mason
    a craftsman who works with stone or brick
  3. gallows
    an instrument from which a person is executed by hanging
  4. accord
    concurrence of opinion
  5. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  6. bereft
    lacking or deprived of something
  7. blanch
    turn pale, as if in fear
  8. blithe
    carefree and happy and lighthearted
  9. briar
    Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
  10. caesura
    a break or pause in the middle of a verse line
  11. churl
    a crude or uncouth person lacking culture or refinement
  12. elegiac
    resembling or characteristic of a lament for the dead
  13. enthrall
    hold spellbound
  14. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  15. lament
    a cry of sorrow and grief
  16. palimpsest
    a manuscript on which more than one text has been written
  17. sibilant
    of speech sounds forcing air through a constricted passage
  18. thrall
    the state of being under the control of another person
  19. weird
    strikingly odd or unusual
  20. wretched
    deserving or inciting pity
  21. wreak
    cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
  22. lyric
    of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion
  23. kenning
    a compound word serving as a metaphorical name for something
  24. litotes
    understatement for rhetorical effect
  25. thane
    a feudal lord or baron
  26. earl
    a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
  27. Wyrd
    fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters
  28. doom
    an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
  29. fiend
    an evil supernatural being
Created on Fri Sep 27 14:41:46 EDT 2013 (updated Fri Sep 27 15:03:22 EDT 2013)

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