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English-Joy & Happy
Joy & Happiness Vocabulary Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bliss | perfect happiness |
| blissful | very happy |
| blithe | merry; joyous. heedless (carolers) |
| buoy | keep afloat; raise the spirits of; encourage |
| buoyant | cheerful; able to float |
| complacency | self-satisfaction; smugness (as mitch would say: me) |
| complacent | too pleased with oneself often without awareness of possible DANGER or deffects; self-satisfied/smug |
| convivial | fond of eating/drinking with friends; sociable (looks like carnival and you do this at a carnival) |
| conviviality | sociability |
| delectable | very pleasing; delightful |
| ecstasy | state of overwhelming joy; rapture |
| ecstatic | in ecstasy; enraptured |
| elated | in high spirits; joyful |
| elation | state of being elated; euphoria |
| frolic | play and run about happily; have fun; romp |
| frolicsome | full of merriment; playful |
| gala | characterized by festivity |
| jocund | merry; cheerful; lighthearted (Santa) |
| jubilant | showing great joy; rejoicing; exulant (Jubilee is a musical hoorah) |
| jubilation | rejoicing; exultation |