By Chris Fairrie
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Woebegone: 1. Affected with or marked by deep sorrow, grief, or wretchedness. Woe: 1. Deep distress or misery, as from grief; wretchedness. Be: 1. To exist in actuality; have life or reality: Gone: 1. Being away from a place; absent or having departed.