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| a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. |
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| any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect. Compare trope |
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| the direct opposite (usually followed by of or to ): Her behavior was the very antithesis of cowardly |
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| the sacred text of islam, divided into 114 chapters, or suras: revered as the word of god, dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, and accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture, and politics. |
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| a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service. |
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| a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story |
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| of, pertaining to, or concerned with the principles or rules of right conduct or the distinction between right and wrong; ethical |
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| to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for |
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| extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc |
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| to reverse in position, order, direction, or relationship. |
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| to charge, bind, or command earnestly and solemnly, often under oath or the threat of a penalty |
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| characterized by firmness and determination, as the temper, spirit, actions |
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| deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful |
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