12 Vocab 1 2022 Definitions

• : to feel or express deep sadness or sorrow

• : gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter

• : (of a statement) false and defamatory; slanderous.

• : sprinkled or streaked with gray: GRAYING

• : characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure

• : having immense or fathomless extension downward, backward, or inward

Mourn

• : gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter

• : to feel or express deep sadness or sorrow

• : one who has returned after an absence

Mirth

• : a dull, lifeless, or faded appearance or quality

• : gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter

• : characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure

Prodigal

Luke 15:24 “For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.”

• : one who has returned after an absence

• : characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure

• : the essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form

Your commitment to the cause is highly commendable.

• : a dull, lifeless, or faded appearance or quality

• : deserving of praise.

• : extremely poor or bad

They were living in abysmal poverty.

• : extremely poor or bad

• : having immense or fathomless extension downward, backward, or inward

• : a dull, lifeless, or faded appearance or quality

Maybe I'm making this sound drabber than it was in reality.

• : gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter

• : to feel or express deep sadness or sorrow

• : a dull, lifeless, or faded appearance or quality

The quintessence of music is the melody.

• : lacking in reverence or proper respect

• : the essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form

• : (of a statement) false and defamatory; slanderous.

His lack of protocol in the church caused him to gain a reputation for being impious.

• : extremely poor or bad

• : gladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter

• : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents)