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eng II ch 3.1-3.5
vocab for chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bliss | perfect happiness |
| blissful | very happy |
| blithe | merry joyous, heedless |
| buoy | keep afloat, raise the spirits of, encourage |
| buoyant | cheerful, able to float |
| complacency | self-satisfaction; smugness |
| complacent | too pleased with oneself--often without awareness of possible dangers or defects; self satisfied; smug |
| convivial | fond of eating and drinking with friends; sociable |
| conviviality | sociability |
| delectable | very pleasing; delightful |
| ecstasy | state of overwheliming joy; rapture |
| ecstatic | in ecstasy; enraptured |
| elated | in high spirits; joyful |
| elation | state of being elated; euphoria |
| frlic | play and run about happily; have fun; romp |
| frolicsome | full of merriment |
| gala | characterized by festivity |
| jocund | merry; cheerful; lightheated |
| jubilant | showing great joy; rejoicing; exultant |
| jubilation | rejoicing; exultation |
| ascetic | shunning pleasures, self denying, austere |
| chagrin | embarrassment; mortification; disappointment |
| chagrined | ashamed; mortified |
| compunction | regret; remors; misgiving; qualm; scruple |
| contrit | showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing; deeply penintent; repentatn; remorseful |
| contrition | repentance; remorse; penintence |
| dejected | sad; in low spirits; depressed; downcast |
| dejection | lowness of pirits; sadness; depression |
| disconsolate | cheerless; inconsolable |
| disgruntled | in bad humor; displeased; discontented |
| doleful | causing grief or sadness; mournful; dolorous; lugubrious |
| glum | moody; gloomy; dour |
| lament | mourn; deplore |
| lamentable | pitiable; rueful |
| maudlin | weakly sentimental and tearful |
| pathos | arousing pity |
| pensive | thoughtful in a sad way, melancholy |
| sullen | resentfully silent; glum;morose;gloomy |
| throes | anguish; pangs |
| tribulation | suffering; distress |
| buxom | plump and attractive |
| attenuate | make thin, weaken |
| emaciated | made unnaturally thin; abnormally thin because of starvation or illness |
| haggard | careworn; gaunt |
| lank | ungracefully tall |
| svelte | slender; lithe |
| adulation | exxcessive praise; flattery |
| blandishment | word or deed of mild flattery; enticement |
| cajole | persuade by pleasant words; wheedle; coax |
| cajolery | persuasion by wheedling |
| curry favor | seed to gain favor by flattery |
| fulsome | offensive becaue of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting |
| ingratiate | work oneslef into favor |
| lackey | follower who carries out another's wishes like a servant |
| obsequious | excessing willingness to serve |
| sycophant | parasitic flatterer |
| truckle | submit in a subservient manner to a superior |
Created by:
annie.ye
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