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    A queenless colony is a pitiful and melancholy community; there may be a mournful wail or lament from within….  (source)
    lament = grief
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    Trudy called until her throat grew raw, her voice a high and wordless lament, and her body thrashed and twisted in the cage of Glen's arms.  (source)
    lament = expression of grief
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    Why, she lamented, did she have to put up with Rudy Steiner?  (source)
    lamented = expressed grief or regret
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    High above us in the darkness a solitary mocker poured out his repertoire in blissful unawareness of whose tree he sat in, plunging from the shrill kee, kee of the sunflower bird to the irascible qua-ack of a bluejay, to the sad lament of Poor Will, Poor Will, Poor Will.  (source)
    lament = expression of grief
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    Now he lamented to my mother, "That beautiful symmetrical face, that bright shining face has gone; she has lost her smile and laughter."  (source)
    lamented = expressed grief
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    Van Houten was just another of the endless mourners who did not know him, another too-late lamentation on his wall.  (source)
    lamentation = passionate expression of grief or sorrow
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Japan's planes, he was lamenting, were no good.  (source)
    lamenting = expressing grief
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    Pastor Merrill stuttered his way into Lamentations—"The Lord is good unto them that wait for him."†  (source)
    Lamentations = passionate expressions of grief or sorrow
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Many items had failed in one way or another on the post-overhaul shakedown the previous week, a fact less unusual than lamentable, Commander Wood thought.†  (source)
    lamentable = regrettable
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    "Once Alex made up his mind about something, there was no changing it," Westerberg laments.  (source)
    laments = expresses grief or regret
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    On the left were four small logs, one of them—the farthest—lamentably springy.  (source)
    lamentably = sadly (unfortunately)
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    for here through songs one enters, and there below through fierce lamentings.†  (source)
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    My late unlamented father taught me one valuable lesson.†  (source)
    unlamented = not grieved or regretted
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unlamented means not and reverses the meaning of lamented. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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