hair, brunette, darker than I remembered, had been stylishly cut and it gave

her the appearance of looking much younger. — The Rules of Attraction;

remorse, deplore pine, redemption

self-reproach = self-reproof = compunction = remorse = reproach

• (self-reproach)- blame or censure by one's own conscience; I feel humiliated
before myself, because I seek in vain release from this grief of self-reproach.
— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt;
• (self-reproof)- the act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by
one's own judgment; He assumed a tone of raillery, which is, perhaps, the
readiest mode of escaping from the feelings of self-reproof. — Woodstock; or,
the Cavalier;
• (compunction)- a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused
by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse, ( nt;
rE" "); He was so much addicted to compunction, and
inflamed with heavenly desires, that he could never say mass without tears.
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints;
• (remorse)- deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction, ( /
a8 4; a"
8 ;   @ ); I have felt the same remorse, the same
bludgeoning sense of guilt. — Highland Ballad;
• (reproach)- to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure,
(n); Lyoff renounced his unrealized dreams with silent reproach, and
Sergei with morbid misanthropy. — Reminiscences of Tolstoy;
contrite = rueful = remorseful = repentant = penitent > impenitent : penance
• (contrite)- filled with a sense of guilt and the desire for atonement;
penitent, (" B / G,  /   a"p 8 ; -)d/ "); He
was contrite, and yet no tear was in his eye, no gentle word on his lips. —
Sintram and His Companions;
• (rueful)- causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable, (a"
8 K ; "
8 );
Darby's tone was so rueful, his expression one of such patient forbearance
towards base treachery, that his aunt laughed outright. — Two Little Travellers
A Story for Girls;
• (remorse)- deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction, ( /
a8 4; a"
8 ;   @ ); I have felt the same remorse, the same
bludgeoning sense of guilt. — Highland Ballad;
• (repentant)- repenting; penitent; experiencing repentance, (a"p 8 ); He
declared himself thoroughly repentant--that this was his first, and would be
 his last crime--but who can trust the good resolutions of a gambler! — Life in
Mexico;
• (penitent)- feeling or expressing sorrow for sin or wrongdoing and disposed
to atonement and amendment; repentant; contrite, (" B a/ )/ G,
a"p
8  a"d
8 ); Austin was very penitent, and promised he'd never
be unpunctual again if he lived to be a hundred. — Austin and His Friends;
• (impenitent)- not feeling regret about one's sin or sins; obdurate,
(a"
8 ,
K ; a8 4); Indeed a hard heart is impenitent, and
impenitence also makes the heart harder and harder. — Works of John Bunyan
— Complete;
• (penance)- a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin, (" B
 / G, 8 /"  sc-a8 4; p jt); The most popular form
of penance was the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, long and painful as it was. —
Beacon Lights of History;
lament {elegy}
• (lament)- to feel or express sorrow or regret for, (  /, . /);
The song's lyrics take the form of a first-person lament, as the singer describes
his struggles to overcome loneliness and poverty in New York City;
• (elegy)- a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a
lament for the dead, ( ^S); The prevailing tone of the composition
rather is that of an elegy--the burial of fond hopes. — The Pianolist A Guide for
Pianola Players;
dirge {requiem = threnode = coronach}
• (dirge)- a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in
commemoration of the dead, (a n,k /  o   L"); "Life is
what we make it--an anthem or a dirge, a psalm of hope or a lamentation of
despair."—A Princess in Calico;
• (requiem)- any musical service, hymn, or dirge for the repose of the dead,
B
(",k/ 9t/ d"/ u d ,  " pS @"); It was a requiem,
a dirge, a moan, a howl a wail, a lament, an abstract of everything that is
sorrowful and hideous in sound. — Charles Dickens and Music;
• the Mass celebrated for the repose of the souls of the dead;
• (threnode/ threnody)- a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, esp. for the
dead; dirge; funeral song;
• (coronach)- (in Scotland and Ireland) a song or lamentation for the dead;
dirge; The dismal coronach resound. — The Lady of the Lake;
deplore = expiate = atone = rue = regret = repent = mourn = plaint = lament =
bemoan = bewail = dirge
• (deplore)- to regret deeply or strongly; lament, (X/
8 G, s  +
,k /; a8 4 /); I confess I have much to deplore, and much for
which to be thankful. — Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men;
• to disapprove of; censure, (n /);
• (expiate)- to atone for; make amends or reparation for; I have many sins
to expiate, and though I be deathless, life is all too short for the atonement. —
Warlord of Mars;
• (atone)- to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for
an offender, ( )/ ; p"/ /; p jt /); Fasting allows us
to atone, leads us toward change and humbles us before the Almighty;
• (rue)- to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly, (a"
8 /; np
o ); We had numerous chances over the game and we were left to rue the
fact that we missed them;
• (regret)- to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment, etc.),
(a"
8 ; /"; 9 k; +; $s; a8 ; d$+); The heart at such
moments tries to be grateful without regret, and hopeful without indifference.
— Father Payne;
• (repent)- to feel sorry, self-reproachful, or contrite for past conduct; regret
or be conscience-stricken about a past action, attitude, etc., (a8 4
o / /; a"p 8 o ); If he has anything to repent, it is not to the world
that he confesses. — John Knox and the Reformation;
• (mourn)- to feel or express sorrow or grief over (misfortune, loss, or
anything regretted); deplore, (  /;  np o ); To human
reason the death of him we mourn was untimely. — Memorial Addresses on the
Life and Character of William H F Lee;
• (plaint)- a lament; lamentation, (.); Even in her inmost thoughts
her plaint was this,--that he, her son, should be doomed to suffer so deeply
for her sin! — Orley Farm;
• a complaint, (.  a ); It begins with a plaint, that is full of cynic
despair; thence it breaks suddenly into a cheerful andante. — Contemporary
American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country;
• (bemoan)- to express distress or grief over; lament, (  p /); The
mother bemoaned the death of her beloved son;
• to regard with regret or disapproval; What I bemoan is the growing
prevalence of the brutal truth. — Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories;
• (bewail)- to express deep sorrow for; lament, ((,)   j /;
 . / (p)" B "/ G,)); The result was that he wandered, half-
distracted, like Lear, bewailing the wound at his heart which a daughter's
hand had given. — The Adventure of Living;
• (dirge)- a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in
commemoration of the dead, (a n,k /  o   L"); "Life is
what we make it--an anthem or a dirge, a psalm of hope or a lamentation of
despair."—A Princess in Calico;

expiate <> expatiate = expound = exposit = explicate = elaborate = dilate
{distend} = lucubrate
• (expatiate)- to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or
discussion, (s / .+  9 .4 /); It is unnecessary to expatiate on
the effect of this downright refusal of the woman's proposals. — The
Deerslayer;
• (expound)- to explain; interpret, (,+, /; s/" /  , aS
/s/ /); But it is a craven apology if we stoop to expound: we are seen
as pleading our case before the public. — Lord Ormont and His Aminta —
Volume 1;
• (exposit)- to expound, as a theory, cause, or the like; However many of the
views they exposit are rejected by mainstream science and have been
repeatedly refuted. — Harry Clarke;
• (explicate)- to make plain or clear; explain; interpret, (s / ,+, o
 o2 /; p /); There is something of the snake eating its own tail
here, since logical probability was supposed to explicate the confirmation of
scientific theories. — Interpretations of Probability;
• (dilate)- to make wider or larger; cause to expand, (p/"    /);
Her eyes began slowly to dilate, and she shivered as though with cold. — The
Malefactor;
• (lucubrate)- to write in a scholarly fashion; produce scholarship; To lounge
and lucubrate, to prate and peep; — Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1;
• to work, write, or study laboriously, esp. at night;
languish <> languid
• (languish)- to be or become weak or feeble; droop; fade, ( sG o ;
an o ; G"gs o ; 9C" G  " ,S  -/ 
); As long as global companies are afflicted by huge capital shortages,
stock markets are likely to languish or grind downward, analysts say;
• (languid)- lacking in vigor or vitality; slack or slow, ()/"mn;  sG);
Her manner was extremely languid, as of a person suffering from nervous
 exhaustion—Miss Ludington's Sister;
• lacking in spirit or interest; listless; indifferent,(G"gs; a);
pine = yearn = yen = languish : longing = nostalgia
• (pine)- languish, decline, long for, yearn, (  nt ) / ) / 
o ,  X/ 8 G, 9. 8 p"k /); His wife, who had always been
more devoted to her children than her husband, pined, and died also. — Paul
Faber, Surgeon;
• (yearn)- to have an earnest or strong desire; long, (9.
8 9q a8 
/; p" o   / G, ,. 8  oT); The fighting spirit in
him yearned, and in a moment his victim was caught up in a crushing
embrace. — The Man in the Twilight;
• (yen)- a yearning for something or to do something;
• (longing)- prolonged unfulfilled desire or need;
• (nostalgia)- longing for something past;
pine^ repine = grouse = complain <> complaint = yielding
• (repine)- to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain, (/" /; a"p B
o ); "Don't repine -- nerve yourself with resolution, and all will be well!"—
An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith;
• (grouse)- to grumble; complain, (/   a n 2 GG /; . /);
My only grouse was the slightly under-portioned serving of beef compared to
the rice;
• any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae, (  //
+ 2 /  .  r S );
• (complaint)- an expression of discontent, regret, pain, censure,
resentment, or grief; lament; faultfinding, (. ; a );
Your complaint is against fate and humanity rather than against the poet
Tennyson. — The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning;
• (yield)- to give up or surrender, (9t /;  /)" / S  /"
o ); Some of Roosevelt's critics construed his yielding, at the last moment,
as evidence of his being ruled by Platt after all. — Theodore Roosevelt An
Intimate Biography;
• to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation,
B
(p" /" " u' /  u'n o ); This crop ranges from 25 to
65 bushels per acre, and the difference in the yield is to be attributed to the
manner of cultivation;

redemption = salvation > salvage = relieve
• (redemption)- repayment of the principal amount of a debt or security at or