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English12 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| animated | lively, vigourous; living, alive, full of life |
| ardor | great enthusiasm, zeal, eagerness, vehemence; emotional warmth; |
| bouyant | lighthearted, hopeful; able to float or to keep objects afloat; |
| debonair | courteous, pleasant; cheerful; urbane; nonchalant; pleasantly gracious |
| discreet | prudent, showing good sense, careful in speech and action; tactful and judicious in dealing with others |
| ecstatic | overpoweringly joyful, very delighted; intense delight; rapturous |
| alacrity | liveliness; cheerful willingness and promptitude |
| espirit de corps | group spirit or pride, sense of union and common interest in some group |
| exultant | jubilant; triumphant; elated; rejoicing greatly |
| exhilerate | to make cheerful or lively; to stimulate; to invigorate; to fill with vivacity |
| fastidious | daintly refined, oversensitive; very critical, hard to please in matters of taste; exceedingly delicate or refined; overnice; sequeamish |
| ingenuous | frank, open, straightforward, sincere, innocent |
| altruism | unselfish concern for the welfare of others |
| authenticity | genuiness, reliability; trustworthy; in law authenticity means legal validity |
| chary | cautious; careful; wary; sparing; frugal; stingy; shy |
| benevolence | goodwill or the dispostion to do good; or an act of kindness or charity |
| benign | of a kind disposition; kindly; gentle; mild, favorable |
| exemplary | serving as a model, deserving imitation, or commendable; serving as an example or illustration |
| munificent | extremely generous; bountiful, liberal |
| paradigm | example, pattern, model; in grammer paradigm refers to any ordered list or table of all the inflected forms of a word or class of words, as of a particular declension, conjugation, etc. |
| probity | complete honesty, uprightness, integrity; strict honesty |
| propriety | quality of being proper, fitting, or suitable; conformity with what is proper or accepted |
| scrupulous | very honest, upright; precise, accurate, careful of details; nicely concientious |
| verisimilitude | appearance of truth; likelihood |
| veracity | truthfulness, honesty; habitual regard for truth |
| paragon | model or pattern of perfection or excellence, especially of a specific excellence: a paragon of statesmanship |