Vocab Lesson 21
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- requiem
- music or a mass for the dead
- vehement
- marked by great emotion, force, or conviction; intense; violent
- debut
- to present for the first time; to make a a debut; a first public appearance, as of an actor; a formal entrance into society
- melancholy
- sad; depressed; causing or suggesting sadness; gloom; low spirits
- bestride
- to sit on something with a leg on each side, to straddle
- theoretical
- hypothetical; unproved or uncertain
- reprieve
- a temporary relief (from pain or trouble); an order temporarily delaying punishment or the execution of a sentence
- casement
- a window that opens on hinges along its side
- fluctuate
- to rise and fall or move back and forth; to change continually in an irregular way
- Documentary
- based on or consisting of documents; employing facts rather than fiction; a presentation (such as a film) built on factual conditions or historical events