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| to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usu. in wrongdoing. |
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| : v. to permit or tolerate, approve; n. appearance, face, approval / favor. |
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| to acknowledge as true or proper, admit; to acknowledge victory before officially established; to grant as right or priveledge. con + cede = to yield |
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| a mornfull, meloncholoy, or plaintive (expressing sorrow/meloncholy "plaintiff") poem; sad musical composition. |
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| marked or attended by ignominy, discreditable, humiliating; bearing or deserving or ignominy, contemptable ignominy: disgrace, dishonor, contempt; shameful or dishonorable quality. |
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| to pretend illness to shirk one's duties. from french |
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| capable of being shaped, esp. extended by hammering or rolling malle = hammer in latin vs. Pliable (pliable is easily bent, flexible, supple; easily influenced, adaptable |
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| lament: to feel/express sorrow, to show express grief, sorrow; a formal expression of grief or sorrow in the form of elegy, dirge, poem. Latin, lament = plaint (a complaint, legally a statement of grievence, a lament) |
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| offensive, harmful or noxious. noy --> obsolete form of annoy. note on noxious... same root innocious, innocent, nocere = to harm in latin |
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| a humorous or satirical immitation of a serious piece of literature or writing; the genre of such writing; a burlesque immitation of a musical composition; v.: to immitate with the goal of humiliating; to immitate poorly or feebly, a travesty. greek. A burlesque ode.... par - ode - y |
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| the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like in exposing, denouncing or deriding vice, folly, etc; literary work in which human folly (foolishness) and vice are ridiculed. (perhaps related to "saturate"). |
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| articstic composition esp literary or dramatic that for teh sake of laughter, vulgarizes lofty material or treats ordinary material with mock dignity; ludicrous parody / grotesque caricature; also a humorous and provocative state show with slapstick, comic skits, bawdy songs, striptease and scantily clad females. (RELATED TO BURL --> Jest, and ultimately burlarse). .... |
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| a farsical grotesque immitation, a mockery (from French meaning disguised, or to clothe (tra-VESTy). |
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| extreme poverty, destitution; scarcity, dearth, inadequecy, insufficiency greek... penia --> hunger |
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| diligent in application or intention; persistently or carefully maintainted from se dolo: without guile |
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| having a loud or harsh sound; urgent or clamorous stridere: to make a grating sound |
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| to show clearly, make evident; to reveal to conque (e + vincere) to carry one's point |
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| an object engraved with figures that carries occult powers; an amulet or charm; anything whose presence exercises a remarkable power on humans. |
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| to tell in detail L: Spanish equiv is "contar" |
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| to withdrawl or disavow. Re-cant... to sing again. |
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| to clear from accusation, imputation, suspician, or the like; to afford justification for; to uphold by argument; to assert, maintain, defend; to get revenge vindicare: to lay claim, to free, to protect or avenge. |
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| to anticipate and prevent or eliminate by effective measures. L: to act contary to. (Similar to peremptorily) |
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| to show to be falase, contradict, to misrepresent; to act unworthily. |
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| commonplace or dull, unimaginative; having the form of prose and not of poetry. prose: latin for straightforward speech |
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