Words that we learn in Creative Writing centered around these five basic ideas: 1. Joy, Pleasure 2. Sadness
3. Stoutness 4. Thinness 5. Flattery
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| 254920363 | bliss (n.) | perfect happiness | |
| 254920364 | blissful (adj.) | very happy | |
| 254920365 | blithe (adj.) | 1. merry; joyous 2. heedless | |
| 254920366 | buoy (v.) | keep afloat; raise the spirits of; encourage | |
| 254920367 | buoyant (adj.) | 1. cheerful 2. able to float | |
| 254920368 | complacency (n.) | self-satisfaction; smugness | |
| 254920369 | complacent (adj.) | too pleased with oneself-- often without awareness of possible dangers or defects; self-satisfied; smug | |
| 254920370 | convivial (adj.) | 1. fond of eating and drinking with friends 2. sociable | |
| 254920371 | conviviality (adj.) | sociability | |
| 254920372 | delectable (adj.) | very pleasing; delightful | |
| 254920373 | ecstasy (n.) | state of overwhelming joy; rapture | |
| 254920374 | ecstatic (adj.) | in ecstasy; enraptured | |
| 254920375 | elated (adj.) | in high spirits; joyful | |
| 254920376 | elation (n.) | state of being elated; euphoria | |
| 254920377 | frolic (v.) | play and run about happily; have fun; romp | |
| 254920378 | frolicsome (adj.) | full of merriment; playful | |
| 254920379 | gala (adj) | characterized by festivity | |
| 254920380 | jocund (adj.) | merry; cheerful | |
| 254920381 | jubilant (adj.) | showing great joy; rejoicing; exultant | |
| 254920382 | jubilation (n.) | rejoicing; exultation | |
| 254920383 | ascetic (adj.) | shunning pleasures; self-denying | |
| 254920384 | ascetic (n.) | person who shuns pleasures and lives simply | |
| 254920385 | chagrin (n.) | embarrassment; mortification; disappointment | |
| 254920386 | chagrined (adj.) | ashamed; mortified | |
| 254920387 | compunction (n.) | regret; remorse; misgiving;qualm | |
| 254920388 | contrite (adj.) | showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing; deeply penitent; repentant | |
| 254920389 | contrition (n.) | repentance | |
| 254920390 | dejected (adj.) | sad; in low spirits; depressed | |
| 254920391 | dejection (n.) | lowness of spirits; sadness; depression | |
| 254920392 | disconsolate (adj.) | cheerless; inconsolable | |
| 254920393 | disgruntled (adj.) | in bad humor; displeased; discontented | |
| 254920394 | doleful (adj.) | causing grief or sadness; mournful; dolorous | |
| 254920395 | glum (adj.) | moody; gloomy; dour | |
| 254920396 | lament (v.) | mourn; deplore | |
| 254920397 | lamentable (adj.) | pitiable; rueful | |
| 254920398 | maudlin (adj.) | weakly sentimental and tearful | |
| 254920399 | nostalgia (n.) | 1. homesickness 2. yearning for the past | |
| 254920400 | nostalgic (adj.) | homesick | |
| 254920401 | pathetic (adj.) | arousing pity | |
| 254920402 | pathos (n.) | quality in events or in art (literature, music, etc.) that arouses our pity | |
| 254920403 | pensive (adj.) | thoughtful in a sad way; melancholy | |
| 254920404 | plight (n.) | unfortunate state; predicament | |
| 254920405 | poignant (adj.) | painfully touching; piercing | |
| 254920406 | sullen (adj.) | resentfully silent; glum; morose; gloomy | |
| 254920407 | throes (n. pl.) | anguish; pangs | |
| 254920408 | tribulation (n.) | suffering; distress | |
| 254920409 | burly (adj.) | strongly and heavily built; husky (ant. lank) | |
| 254920410 | buxom (adj.) | plump and attractive | |
| 254920411 | cherubic (adj.) | chubby and innocent-looking; like a cherub (angel in the form of a child) | |
| 254920412 | obese (adj.) | extremely overweight; corpulent; portly (ant. skinny) | |
| 254920413 | obesity (n.) | excessive body weight; corpulence | |
| 254920414 | pudgy (adj.) | short and plump; chubby | |
| 254920415 | attenuate (v.) | make thin; weaken | |
| 254920416 | emaciated (adj.) | made unnaturally thin; abnormally lean because of starvation or illness (ant. fleshy) | |
| 254920417 | haggard (adj.) | careworn; gaunt | |
| 254920418 | lank (adj.) | lean; ungracefully tall; lanky (ant. burly) | |
| 254920419 | svelte (adj.) | slender; lithe | |
| 254920420 | adulation (n.) | excessive praise; flattery | |
| 254920421 | blandishment (n.) | word or deed of mild flattery; allurement; enticement | |
| 254920422 | cajole (v.) | persuade by pleasant words; wheedle; coax | |
| 254920423 | cajolery (n.) | persuasion by flattery; wheedling; coaxing | |
| 254920424 | curry (v.) favor (n.) | seek to gain favor by flattery | |
| 254920425 | fulsome (adj.) | offensive because of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting | |
| 254920426 | ingratiate (v.) | work (oneself) into favor | |
| 254920427 | lackey (n.) | follower who carries out another's wishes like a servant; toady | |
| 254920428 | obsequious (adj.) | showing excessive willingness to serve; subservient; fawning | |
| 254920429 | sycophant (n.) | parasitic flatterer; truckler | |
| 254920430 | truckle (v.) | submit in a subservient manner to a superior; fawn; make a doormat of oneself |
