College Bound Vocab Test 2 - AP English
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211997605 | bliss | perfect happiness | |
211997606 | blissful | very happy | |
211997607 | blithe | merry; joyous; heedless | |
211997608 | buoy | keep afloat; raise the spirits of; encourage | |
211997609 | buoyant | cheerful | |
211997610 | complacency | self-satisfaction; smugness | |
211997611 | complacent | too please with oneself -often without awareness of possible dangers or defects; self-satisfied; smug | |
211997612 | convivial | fond of eating and drinking with friends; sociable | |
211997613 | conviviality | sociability | |
211997614 | delectable | very pleasing; delightful | |
211997615 | ecstasy | state of overwhelming joy; rapture | |
211997616 | ecstatic | in ecstasy; enraptured | |
211997617 | elated | in high spirits; joyful | |
211997618 | elation | state of being elated; euphoria | |
211997619 | frolic | play and run about happily; have fun; romp | |
211997620 | frolicsome | full of merriment; playful | |
211997621 | gala | characterized by festivity | |
211997622 | jocund | merry; cheerful; lighthearted | |
211997623 | jubilant | showing great joy; rejoicing; exultant | |
211997624 | jubilation | rejoicing; exultation | |
212109340 | ascetic | shunning pleasures; self-denying | |
212109341 | ascetic | person who shuns pleasures and lives simply | |
212109342 | chagrin | embarrassment; mortification; disappointment | |
212109343 | chagrined | ashamed; mortified | |
212109344 | compunction | regret; remorse; misgiving; qualm; scruple | |
212109345 | contrite | showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing; deeply penitent; repentant; remorseful | |
212109346 | contrition | repentance; remore; penitence | |
212109347 | dejected | sad; in low spirits; depressed; downcast | |
212109348 | dejection | lowness of spirits; sadness; depression | |
212109349 | disconsolate | cheerless; inconsolable | |
212109350 | disgruntled | in bad humor; displeased; discontented | |
212109351 | doleful | causing grief or sadness; mournful; dolorous; lugubrious | |
212109352 | glum | moody; gloomy; dour | |
212109353 | lament | mourn; deplore | |
212109354 | lamentable | pitiable; rueful | |
212109355 | maudlin | weakly sentimental and tearful | |
212109356 | nostalgia | homesickness; yearning for the past | |
212109357 | nostalgic | homesick | |
212109358 | pathetic | arousing pity | |
212109359 | pathos | quality in events or in art (literature, music, etc...) that arouses our pity | |
212109360 | pensive | thoughtful in a sad way; melancholy | |
212109361 | plight | unfortunate state; predicament | |
212109362 | poignant | painfully touching; piercing | |
212109363 | sullen | resentfully silent; glum; morose; gloomy | |
212109364 | throes | anguish; pangs | |
212109365 | tribulation | suffering; distress | |
212998330 | burly | strongly and heavily built; husky | |
212998331 | buxom | plump & attractive | |
212998332 | cherubic | chubby and innocent-looking | |
212998333 | obese | extremely overweight; corpulent | |
212998334 | obesity | excessive body weight; corpulence | |
212998335 | pudgy | short and plump; chubby | |
212998336 | attenuate | make thin; weaken | |
212998337 | emaciated | made unnaturally thin; abnormally lean because of starvation or illness | |
212998338 | haggard | careworn; gaunt | |
212998339 | lank | lean; ungracefully tall | |
212998340 | svelte | slender; lithe | |
213047544 | adulation | excessive praise; flattery | |
213047545 | blandishment | word or deed of mild flattery; allurement; enticement | |
213047546 | cajole | persuade by pleasant words; wheedle; coax | |
213047547 | cajolery | persuasion by flattery; wheedling; coaxing | |
213047548 | curry | seek to gain favor by flattery | |
213047549 | fulsome | offensive because of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting | |
213047550 | ingratiate | work (oneself) into favor | |
213047551 | lackey | follower who carries out another's wishes like a servant; toady | |
213047552 | obsequious | showing excessive willingness to serve, subservient; fawning | |
213047553 | sycophant | parasitic flatterer; truckler | |
213047554 | truckle | submit in a subservient manner to a superior; fawn; make a doormat of oneself |