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A buoyant economy has been lifted by an abundance of trade activity.
When you commemorate a person, you honor them or cause them to be remembered in some way.
A convivial atmosphere or occasion is friendly, pleasant, cheerful, and relaxed.
A demise can be the death of someone or the slow end of something.
A dirge is a slow and sad piece of music often performed at funerals.
A dour place is plain and dull—people don’t have much fun there.
Someone who is ebullient is filled with enthusiasm, very happy, and extremely excited about something.
An edifice is a large or impressive building, such as a church, palace, temple, or fortress.
An effervescent individual is lively, very happy, and enthusiastic.
An elegy is a poem or other piece of writing expressing sadness; it is often about someone who has died.
A eulogy is a speech or other piece of writing, often part of a funeral, in which someone or something is highly praised.
If you show exuberance, you display great excitement, energy, and enthusiasm.
An idyll is a place or situation that is extremely pleasant, peaceful, and has no problems.
An irrevocable action or decision is impossible to change, reverse, or stop.
Someone who is jocular is cheerful and often makes jokes or tries to make people laugh.
A lamentable state of affairs is miserable and just plain awful.
If someone is lugubrious, they are looking very sad or gloomy.
If you describe something as moribund, you imply that it is no longer effective; it may also be coming to the end of its useful existence.
Someone who is morose is unhappy, bad-tempered, and unwilling to talk very much.
A plaintive sound or voice expresses sadness.
Plangent sounds are loud and tend to suggest sadness.
Someone who is saturnine is looking miserable and sad, sometimes in a threatening or unfriendly way.
A scintillating conversation, speech, or performance is brilliantly clever, interesting, and lively.
A sepulcher is a building or room, usually made of stone, in which dead people are buried.
A stygian place is extremely and unpleasantly dark, gloomy, and frightening.
If someone is described as vivacious, they are lively and have a happy, lighthearted manner.
Noun
requiem
REK-wee-uhm
Context
Mozart’s Requiem, or funeral music, is incredible in its ability to portray grief. This requiem, or musical piece which honored an Austrian nobleman’s wife who passed away, is one of the most popular musical pieces for a funeral ever written. In listening to the orchestral requiem or song for the dead, one is reminded of the entire spectrum of human emotion, and most listeners are moved to tears of grief.
Return to Quiet When a requiem is performed for someone, we know that he has returned to everlasting quiet because he has died.
Examples
The music is often fierce in its execution, but in essence it is a requiem for those who perished in that sudden inferno, and those who died trying to save them.
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Rolling Stone
Later, the coffin rested in the glow of candles and the glare of television arc-lamps in Milan's great Gothic cathedral. After Mass, Victor de Sabata, now principal conductor at La Scala, led the Cathedral and La Scala choirs in Verdi's magnificent Requiem; it is rarely heard in church because it is considered too theatrical, but Italians knew that no other requiem could be performed for Arturo Toscanini.
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TIME
A requiem is sung for those who have permanently gone to “rest,” that is, have gone “back” to the earth.
Word Theater
Mozart's Requiem Mozart's final masterpiece was commissioned by Count Franz von Walsegg.
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