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like a pretty lame excuse to me.
lament v. 1 mourn, bemoan, bewail, wail, weep (over), grieve (for or
over), keen (over), sorrow (for or over): A year later, and she
is still lamenting the death of her hamster?!
--n. 2 lamentation, moaning, mourning; keen, dirge, elegy,
knell, Requiem, monody, threnody, thanatopsis, epicedium, Scots
and Irish coronach: Laments for Kitty's late husband were heard
throughout the village.
lamentable
adj. deplorable, wretched, miserable, terrible, distressing,
awful, regrettable, pitiful, despicable, intolerable,
unfortunate: The hall was left in a lamentable state after the
party. His death was presaged by a lamentable series of events.
lamentation
n. mourning, grieving, moaning, weeping, wailing, crying,
sobbing, lamenting: The lamentation went on far into the night.
lampoon n. 1 burlesque, caricature, satire, parody, pasquinade or
pasquil, squib, Colloq take-off, Brit send-up: The students
published a hilarious lampoon of the teaching staff.
--v. 2 burlesque, caricature, satirize, parody, pasquinade or
pasquil, mock, ridicule, squib, US skewer, Colloq take off, put
or run down, Brit send up: The cows we hold most sacred are
often lampooned by irreverent cartoonists.
lance n. 1 spear, pike, javelin, assegai; lancet: He transfixed the
knight with his lance, and claimed victory in the joust.
--v. 2 pierce, stab, puncture, prick, incise, open, slit: The
boil must be lanced at once to draw out the poison.
land n. 1 earth, (solid) ground, terra firma: After weeks in an
open boat, Captain Bligh was relieved to have land under his
feet again. 2 dirt, earth, soil, turf, sod, loam, mould:
Trumble tilled the land as his ancestors had done for
generations. 3 property, grounds, real property or realty or US
and Canadian also real estate, acreage; estate: How much land
goes with the house? 4 fatherland, motherland, nation, country,