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Monday, March 4, 2013
Vocab word of the week
keen
2
[
keen
]
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noun
1.
a
wailing
lament
for
the
dead.
verb
(used
without
object)
2.
to
wail
in
lamentation
for
the
dead.
verb
(used
with
object)
3.
to
bewail
or
lament
by
or
with
keening
.
Origin:
1805–15;
<
Irish
caoine
(noun),
caoin-
(v.,
stem
of
caoinim
)
lament
1 comment:
dds
March 4, 2013 at 7:01 PM
Nice! I like new and unusual lamentations XD
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Nice! I like new and unusual lamentations XD
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