College Bound vocab. 2
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85793629 | bliss | perfect happiness | |
85793630 | blissful | very happy | |
85793631 | blithe | 1.merry; joyous 2.heedless | |
85793632 | Buoy | keep afloat; raise the spirits of; encourage | |
85793633 | Buoyant | 1.cheerful 2.able to float | |
85793634 | complacency | self-satisfaction; smugness | |
85793635 | complacent | too pleased with oneself- often without awareness of possible dangers or defects; self-satisfied; smug | |
85793636 | convivial | fond of eating and drinking with friends; sociable | |
85793637 | conviviality | sociability | |
85793638 | delectable | very pleasing; delightful | |
85793639 | ecstasy | state of overwhelming joy; rapture | |
85793640 | ecstatic | in ecstasy; enraptured | |
85793641 | elated | in high spirits; joyful | |
85793642 | elation | state of being elated; euphoria | |
85793643 | frolic | play and run about happily; have fun; romp | |
85793644 | frolicsome | full of merriment; playful | |
85793645 | gala | characterized by festivity | |
85793646 | jocund | merry; cheerful; lighthearted | |
85793647 | jubilant | showing great joy; rejoicing; exultant | |
85793648 | jubilation | rejoicing; exultation | |
85793649 | ascetic(adj.) | shunning pleasures; self-denying; austere | |
85793650 | ascetic(n.) | person who shuns pleasures and lives simply | |
85793651 | chagrin | embarrassment; mortification; disappointed | |
85793652 | chagrined | ashamed; mortified | |
85793653 | compunction | regret; remorse; misgiving; qualm; scruple | |
85793654 | contrite | showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing; deeply penitent; repentant; remorseful | |
85793655 | contrition | repentance; remorse; penitence | |
85793656 | dejected | sad; in low spirits; depressed; downcast | |
85793657 | dejection | lowness of spirits; sadness; depression | |
85793658 | disconsolate | cheerless; inconsolable | |
85793659 | disgruntled | in bad humor; displeased; discontented | |
85793660 | doleful | causing grief or sadness; mournful; dolorous; lugubrious | |
85793661 | glum | moody; gloomy; dour | |
85793662 | lament | mourn; deplore | |
85793663 | lamentable | pitiable rueful | |
85793664 | maudlin | weakly sentimental and tearful | |
85793665 | nostalgia | 1.homesickness 2.yearning for the past | |
85793666 | nostalgic | homesick | |
85793667 | pathetic | arousing pity | |
85793668 | pathos | quality in events or in art (literature, music, etc.) that arouses our pity | |
85793669 | pensive | thoughtful in a sad way; melancholy | |
85793670 | plight | unfortunate state; predicament | |
85793671 | poignant | painfully touching; piercing | |
85793672 | sullen | resentfully silent; glum; morose; gloomy | |
85793673 | throes | anguish; pangs | |
85793674 | tribulation | suffering; distress | |
85793675 | burly | strongly and heavily built; husky | |
85793676 | buxom | plump and attractive | |
85793677 | cherubic | chubby and innocent-looking; like a cherub (angel in the form of a child) | |
85793678 | obese | extremely overweight; corpulent; portly | |
85793679 | obesity | excessive body weight; corpulence | |
85793680 | pudgy | short and plump; chubby | |
85793681 | attenuate | make thin; weaken | |
85793682 | emaciated | made unnaturally thin; abnormally lean because of starvation or illness | |
85793683 | haggard | careworn; gaunt | |
85793684 | lank | lean; ungracefully tall; lanky | |
85793685 | svelte | slender; lithe | |
85793686 | adulation | excessive praise; flattery | |
85793687 | blandishment | word or deed of mild flattery; allurement; enticement | |
85793688 | cajole | persuade by pleasant words; wheedle; coax | |
85793689 | cajolery | persuasion by flattery; wheedling; coaxing | |
85793690 | curry favor | seek to gain favor by flattering | |
85793691 | fulsome | offensive because of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting | |
85793692 | ingratiate | work (oneself) into favor | |
85793693 | lackey | follower who carries out another's wishes like a servant; toady | |
85793694 | obsequious | showing excessive willingness to serve; subservient; fawning | |
85793695 | sycophant | parasitic flatterer; truckler | |
85793696 | truckle | submit in a subservient manner to a superior; fawn; make a doormat of oneself |