Vocabulary - Word Group 14

Word Group : Death / Mourning

No	Word	Meaning	Sentence
1	Bereave	Be deprived of a close relation or friend through their death	She had recently been bereaved
2	Cadaver	A Corpse	The cadaver was intended for dissection
3	Defunct	No longer existing or functioning	The now defunct Somerset and Dorset railway line
4	Demise	1.     A person’s death 2.     Conveyance or transfer of property or a title by will or lease	1.     Mr. Grisenthwaite’s tragic demise 2.     The manor and the mill were demised for twenty-one-year terms
5	Dolorous	Feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress	A dolorous and repetitive tale of atrocity
6	Elegy	A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament of the dead	Funeral poem/song
7	Knell	The sound of a bell, especially when rung solemnly for a death or funeral	The knell of parting day
8	Lament	1.     A passionate expression of grief or sorrow 2.     A complaint	1.     His mother’s night-long laments for his father 2.     There were constant laments about the conditions of employment
9	Macabre	Disturbing because concerned with or causing a fear of death	A macabre series of murders
10	Moribund	1.     (of a person) at the point of death 2.     (of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigour	1.     On examination she was moribund and dehydrated 2.     The moribund commercial property market
11	Obsequies	Funeral rites	At last we got through the obsequies
12	Sepulchral	Relating to tomb or interment	Sepulchral tones
13	Wraith	A ghost or ghostlike image of someone, especially one seen shortly before or after their death	Heart attacks has reduced her mother to a wraith