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ENG COMP: Vocab 5-4
Vocabulary List 5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| amiable | loveable; generally pleasant, friendly, and nice to be around |
| amity | friendly and peaceful relations, as between nations; friendship |
| Anglophilia | an affection or extreme admiration for anything connected with England |
| bibliophile | an individual who loves books, especially for their design and appearance; a book collector |
| enamored | in love with, usually in a passive sense; captivated by |
| philanderer | an individual who engages in many casual love affairs |
| philanthropy | a love of humankind in general; the desire to be helpful to others, and actions that reflect this desire, as the funding of humanitarian projects |
| philatelist | one who loves stamps, especially postage stamps, an expert in the study of postage stamps, postmarks, and so on |
| philosophical | characteristic of a love for wisdom and reasoning; systemically thoughtful, sometimes to a fault; contemplative |
| primeval | of or related to the earliest times or ages; existing at or since the beginning; primal or primitive |