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Threnody

In some dictionaries the definition reads…

a song of lamentation for the dead

It is sad, but with a definition that rises to the level of poetry

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Ineluctable

You cannot escape the meaning of this word, which means “cannot avoid or escape.”

I was always trying to find words my mother hadn’t heard or read. It was most unfair she had a head start by being born before I was. She also read and did crossword puzzles daily. I could never catch [...]