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DOLORES, THE DOLOROUS DIVA - List 8

 

Dolorous - Dolorous, meaning mournful or grief-stricken, is a combination of the Latin dolor, “grief” and the suffix -ous, “full”. In music, there is the term doloroso which tells the musician to "play it sorrowfully or sadly." The Via Dolorosa, the sorrowful road, is the path where Jesus walked to the cross.

 

Diva – [Pronounced dÂva] A distinguished female opera star. Diva is the feminine form of the Latin word divus and means “divine”. Divas are also known as prima donnas, which means “first ladies”. Unfortunately, a prima donna has also come to mean a temperamental and often contentious person.

 

Vocabulary              Definitions

1.        dolorous                 sorrowful

2.        diva                        opera singer (female)

3.        decorous                 proper

4.        detriment                harm, damage

5.        delusion                  false belief

6.        defunct                   dead, extinct

7.        delete                      erase

8.        deprecatory             disapproving

9.        deference                respect

10.        dilapidated              ruined, broken down

11.     decadence              decay, deterioration

12.     detonated               exploded

13.     dotage                   senility, old age

14.     disconcerted          upset, confused

15.     diverse                  varied

16.     desultory               aimless

17.     dearth                   scarcity

 (17 words)

 

Rothstein, Evelyn. Staying at the Top. Nyack, NY: ERA/CCR Corp, 1986.