Vocab List 4-6

a funeral song or lament; any song or poem expressing mourning

the quality of being thrifty; not spending or using unnecessarily

the act of stealing and using the ideas or writings of another as one's own

extreme poverty

• perdition

• penury

• frugality

• clemency

intonation of the voice; measured movement, such as in music and writing

• hiatus

• clemency

• cadence

• trajectory

revealing hostility and a readiness to fight

a person or thing that goes before and heralds the coming of another person or thing; one who precedes another in a course or office

mercy in the exercise of authority or power; leniency toward an offender or enemy

• perdition

• trajectory

• clemency

• penury

a break or interruption in something; a gap; a pause

the direction of an object through space; a course taken