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adjective • resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy adjective satellite • expressing sorrow often for something past | ||||||||
45% | 9 | Expressing sorrow or melancholy | ||||||
adjective satellite • expressing sorrow | ||||||||
39% | 6 | Making melancholy and plaintive sounds | ||||||
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