GRE Vocab
Friday, October 28, 2011
Dirge
noun: a funeral hymn or mournful speech
Melville wrote the poem "A Dirge fro James McPherson" for the funeral of a Union general who was killed in 1864.
Synonyms: elegy, lament
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