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Thanatopsis

A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death.

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Allegory noun · 78% connection

A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and…

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Brooding noun · 78% connection

persistent morbid meditation on a problem

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Cogitation noun · 78% connection

The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation.

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Contemplation noun · 78% connection

The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.

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Contemplative noun · 78% connection

A religious or either sex devoted to prayer and meditation, rather than to active works of charity.

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Coroner noun · 78% connection

An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterio…

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Deadly adjective · 78% connection

Capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound.

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Death's-head noun · 78% connection

A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.

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Emblem noun · 78% connection

A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

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End noun · 78% connection

Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.

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Examine verb · 78% connection

To test by any appropriate method; to inspect carefully with a view to discover the real character or state of; to subject to inquiry…

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Execution noun · 78% connection

A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer.

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Extempore adverb · 78% connection

Without previous study or meditation; without preparation; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or spea…

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Gymnosophy noun · 78% connection

the doctrine of a sect of Hindu philosophers who practiced nudity and asceticism and meditation

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Hatch verb · 78% connection

To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatc…

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Heir noun · 78% connection

One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law besto…

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Knell noun · 78% connection

The stoke of a bell tolled at a funeral or at the death of a person; a death signal; a passing bell; hence, figuratively, a warning of…

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Lucubration noun · 78% connection

The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation.

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