AP English Vocabulary 2
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| 210773472 | bliss | perfect happiness | |
| 210773473 | blissful | very happy | |
| 210773474 | blithe | 1. merry; joyous 2. heedless | |
| 210773475 | buoy | keep afloat; raise the spirits of; encourage | |
| 210773476 | buoyant | 1. cheerful 2. able to float | |
| 210773477 | complacency | self-satisfaction; smugness | |
| 210773478 | complacent | too pleased with oneself-- often without awareness of possible dangers or defects; self-satisfied; smug | |
| 210773479 | convivial | fond of eating and drinking with friends; sociable | |
| 210773480 | conviviality | sociability | |
| 210773481 | delectable | very pleasing; delightful | |
| 210773482 | ecstasy | state of overwhelming joy; rapture | |
| 210773483 | ecstatic | in ecstasy; enraptured | |
| 210773484 | elated | in high spirits; joyful | |
| 210773485 | elation | state of being elated; euphoria | |
| 210773486 | frolic | play and run about happily; have fun; romp | |
| 210773487 | frolicsome | full of merriment; playful | |
| 210773488 | ascetic (adj) | shunning pleasures; self-denying; austere | |
| 210773489 | ascetic (n) | person who shuns pleasures and lives simply | |
| 210773490 | chagrin | embarrassment; mortification; disappointment | |
| 210773491 | chagrined | ashamed; mortified | |
| 210773492 | compunction | regret; remorse; misgiving; qualm; scruple | |
| 210773493 | contrite | showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing; deeply penitent; repent; remorseful | |
| 210773494 | contrition | repentance; remorse; penitence | |
| 210773495 | dejected | sad; in low spirits; depressed; downcast | |
| 210773496 | dejection | lowness of spirits; sadness; depression | |
| 210773497 | disconsolate | cheerless; inconsolable | |
| 210773498 | disgruntled | in bad humor; displeased; discontented | |
| 210773499 | doleful | causing grief or sadness; mournful; dolorous; lugubrious | |
| 210773500 | glum | moody; gloomy; dour | |
| 210773501 | lament | mourn; deplore | |
| 210773502 | lamentable | pitiable; rueful | |
| 210773503 | maudlin | weakly sentimental and tearful | |
| 210773504 | nostalgia | 1. homesickness 2. yearning for the past | |
| 210773505 | nostalgic | homesick | |
| 210773506 | pathetic | arousing pity | |
| 210773507 | pathos | quality in events or in art (literature, music, etc.) that arouses our pity | |
| 210773508 | pensive | thoughtful in a sad way; melancholy | |
| 210773509 | plight | unfortunate state; predicament | |
| 210773510 | poignant | painfully touching; piercing | |
| 210773511 | sullen | resentfully silent; glum; morose; gloomy | |
| 210773512 | throes | anguish; pangs | |
| 210773513 | tribulation | suffering; distress | |
| 210773514 | burly | strongly and heavily built; husky (ant. Lank) | |
| 210773515 | buxom | plump and attractive | |
| 210773516 | cherubic | chubby and innocent-looking; like a cherub | |
| 210773517 | obese | extremely overweight; corpulent; portly (ant. Skinny) | |
| 210773518 | obesity | excessive body weight; corpulence | |
| 210773519 | pudgy | short and plump; chubby | |
| 210773520 | attentuate | make thin; weaken | |
| 210773521 | emaciated | made unnaturally thin; abnormally lean because of starvation or illness (ant. Fleshy) | |
| 210773522 | haggard | careworn; gaunt | |
| 210773523 | lank | lean; ungracefully tall; lanky (ant. Burly) | |
| 210773524 | svelte | slender, lithe | |
| 210773525 | adulation | excessive praise; flattery | |
| 210773526 | blandishment | word or deed of mild flattery; allurement; enticement | |
| 210773527 | cajole | persuade by pleasant words; wheedle; coax | |
| 210773528 | cajolery | persuasion by flattery; wheedling; coaxing | |
| 210773529 | curry favor | seek to gain favor by flattery | |
| 210773530 | fulsome | offensive because of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting | |
| 210773531 | ingratiate | work (oneself) into favor | |
| 210773532 | lackey | follower who carries out another's wishes like a servant; toady | |
| 210773533 | obsequious | showing excessive willingness to serve; subservient; fawning | |
| 210773534 | sycophant | parasitic flatter; truckler | |
| 210773535 | truckle | submit in a subservient manner to a superior; fawn; make of a doormat of oneself |