Word List Day of the Dead 171 words

Day of the Dead Vocabulary Word List (171)

• A

  acknowledgment, admiration, altar, ancestors, anguish, anniversary

• B

  balloons, barriletes (kites), bereaved, blessings, bones

• C

  Calaveras, candles, Catholic, celebrate, celebration, cemetery, champurrado, church, closure, clothing, color, comfort, commemoration, commiserate, communal, communication, compassion, comprehension, congregation, consolation, corn, culture, custom

• D

  daylong, dead, death, deceased, decorations, departed, devotion, Dia de los Muertos, dignity, distress, dread

• E

  elaborate, elders, emotion, empathize, endearing, endure, energy, eternity, evidence, exaggeration, express

• F

  family, favors, fear, festival, festive, flowers, folk art, food

• G

  gathering, gratitude, graves, grief

• H

  hallowed, headstones, heart, honor, hope, human

• I

  icing, impact, implications, infants, invocation

• J

  joy, joyful, jubilation

• K

  keepsake, kindhearted, kinship, kites, kneel

• L

  lament, Latin America, lime, linger, litany, living, loss, loved ones

• M

  memories, messages, Mexico, moments, mourn, moving, music

• N

  noticeable, numb

• O

  observance, occasion

• P

  pain, pan de muerto, paper cutouts, paper mache, parade, photographs, pictures, pictures, pinata, poignant, popular, prayer, preach, preserve, priest, procession

• Q

  quiet

• R

  recollection, recounting, recovery, rejoice, release, religion, remembrance, respect, reveal, ritual

• S

  sadness, salute, sentiment, service, skeleton, skull, solemn, sorrow, spectacle, spirit, spirits, spun sugar, stories, suffer, sugar skulls, survivors, sweets, symbolize, sympathy

• T

  tangible, tears, tenderness, tradition, traditional, treasure, tribute, trinket

• U

  unique, unknown, upset

• V

  vendor, vigil, visible, visit, vow

• W

  woe, worry, worship

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