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vocab 2
English vocab 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bouyant | the feeling of being Light-hearted, uplifted. 'when Romeo learned that Juliet returned his feelings of love, he felt positively buoyant" |
| Complacent | negative sense of being unpleasantly self satisfied, smug. "the married couple's sense of complacency about having a life partner was sometimes irritating to their singleton friends. |
| Complaisant | Describes someone overly eager to please or calmly accepts mistreatment. "The subplot of the french play focuses on the complaisant husband; why didn't he care that his wife was consistently unfaithful?" |
| Draconian | Treatment that is exceedingly harsh or severe. "Those who believe strongly in their right to bear arms will probably judge gun laws in the United Kingdom to be draconian." |
| Dunce | Good name from a stupid person, a dolt. "what a dunce I am! I left the tickets for the senior play at home on the mantel, and now we'll being late for the opening." |
| Ebullient | Describes outward manner of high enthusiasm that would presumably come from a feeling of joy or high spirits. "Lucretia's good mood was evident to us all from her ebullient greeting of each of us with a newly coined, affectionate nicknames." |
| Ecstatic | Implies extreme happiness. "Ingrid was ecstatic when she learned that her science project had been awarded a top prize in the Intel competition." |
| Euphoric | Extreme happiness, a 'wow" feeling. "Mary Lou was understandably euphoric when she learned she had just won the state lottery." |
| Galvanize | literal meaning to shocking someone with an electric current. today, it only means spurring someone into thought or action. |
| Jocular | Tending to make jokes. "Bartholomew was normally a serious fellow, but April Fool's Day brought out his jocular side." |
| Jubilant | Simple idea of being very happy. the noun form, "jubilee," commonly means celebration. "didn't Queen Elizabeth II of England celebrate a jubilee fairly recently?" |
| Luddite | A person who opposes technology. "if this book were being written with a quill pen, its authors would be called modern-day Luddites." |
| Maverick | Someone who dissents from group opinion and his or her own way. "We could detect a streak or maverick in Ian when he attended his classes on a day the others seniors had agreed to cut.' |
| Mesmerize | To enthrall, to capture fully someone's attention. "Although Abraham Lincoln could never completely shake his skepticism about religion, he remained mesmerized by the idea." |
| Pyrrhic | A technical win achieved at a high cost. |
| Quixotic | Overly idealistic. "One side of Caitlin's personality is quixotic, but she tempers that with the highly practical streak.' |
| Risible | Describes a person feeling inclined to laugh or situations to provoke laughter. "the cartoonish stereotype of a risible situation is that of a man in a top hat slipping on a banana." |
| Tawdry | Cheap or gaudy in appearance of something more figuratively shameful. "Why is it that some people enjoy revealing their tawdry secrets to nationwide television audience." |
| Exultant | To be extremely happy. "An exultant look came onto Ben Hur's face as he realized that victory in the chariot race was certain." |
| Spoonerism | Humorous transpositions of sounds like "blushing crows." "Lucy delights in all forms of word play, especially puns and spoonerisms." |
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