AL Unit 5 Vocabulary Practice

Word meaning cheerful; merry (adj)

• jocose

• jocular

• festoon

• fete

Word meaning characterized by joking (adj)

• jocose

• baccanal

• bacchic

• jocular

Word meaning to drape or adorn festively (v)

• fete

• festoon

• plaintive

• plaint

Word meaning to honor with a banquet or feast (v)

• elegy

• elegiac

• fete

• festoon

Word meaning of or related to a wild celebration (adj)

• bacchic

• bacchanal

• plaintive

• plaint

Word meaning a drunken party or celebration (n)

• jocose

• jocular

• bacchic

• bacchanal

Word meaning a song or poem memorializing something or someone (n)

• elegy

• elegiac

• plaintive

• plaint

Word meaning mourning that which is lost or past; sorrowful (adj)

• elegiac

• plaintive

• jocular

• bacchic

Word meaning sorrowful; expressing or evoking mourning or sadness (adj)

• plaintive

• elegy

• fete

• jocose

Word meaning a lament or complaint (n)

• elegiac

• plaint

• festoon

• bacchanal