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Requiem

/rˈɛkwiəm/
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(noun) A Mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.

Tom composed a short requiem in Mary's honor.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The composer wrote a ____ in memory of his friend who had died suddenly at the age of forty.

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