Ap English Vocab Ch 3.1-5

Front 1

bliss; blissful

Back 1

perfect happiness; very happy

Front 2

blithe

Back 2

merry, joyous; heedless

Front 3

buoy; buoyant

Back 3

keep afloat, rise the spirits of, encourage; cheerful, able to float

Front 4

complacency; complacent

Back 4

self-satisfaction, smugness; too pleased with ones self-often without awareness of possible dangers

Front 5

convivial; conviviality

Back 5

fond of eating and drinking with friends, sociable; sociability

Front 6

delectable

Back 6

very pleasing, delightful

Front 7

ecstasy; ecstatic

Back 7

state of overwhelming joy, rapture; in ecstasy, enraptured

Front 8

elated; elation

Back 8

in high spirits, joyful; state of being elated, euphoria

Front 9

frolic; frolicsome

Back 9

play and run about happily, have fun, romp; full of merriment; playful

Front 10

gala

Back 10

characterized by festivity

Front 11

jocund

Back 11

merry, cheerful, lighthearted

Front 12

jubilant; jubilation

Back 12

showing great joy; rejoicing, exultation

Front 13

ascetic

Back 13

shunning pleasures, self-denying, austere; person who shuns pleasures and lives simply

Front 14

chagrin; chagrined

Back 14

embarrassment, mortification, disappointment; ashamed, mortified

Front 15

compunction

Back 15

regret, remorse, misgiving, qualm, scruple

Front 16

contrite; contrition

Back 16

showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing, deeply penitent, repentant, remorseful; repentance, remorse, penitence

Front 17

dejected; dejection

Back 17

sad, low in spirits, depressed, downcast; lowness of spirits, sadness, depression

Front 18

disconsolate

Back 18

cheerless, inconsolable

Front 19

disgruntled

Back 19

in bad humor, displeased, discontented

Front 20

doleful

Back 20

causing grief or sadness, mournful, dolorous, lugubrious

Front 21

lament; lamentable

Back 21

mourn, deplore; pitiable, rueful

Front 22

maudlin

Back 22

weakly sentimental and tearful

Front 23

nostalgia; nostalgic

Back 23

homesickness; yearning for the past;; homesick

Front 24

pathetic

Back 24

arousing pity

Front 25

pathos

Back 25

quality in events or in art that arouses our pity

Front 26

pensive

Back 26

thoughtful in a sad way, melancholy

Front 27

plight

Back 27

unfortunate state, predicament

Front 28

poignant

Back 28

painfully touching, piercing

Front 29

sullen

Back 29

resentfully silent, glum, morose, gloomy

Front 30

throes

Back 30

anguish, pangs

Front 31

tribulation

Back 31

suffering, distress

Front 32

burly

Back 32

strongly and heavily built, husky (lank)

Front 33

buxom

Back 33

plump and attractive

Front 34

cherubic

Back 34

chubby and innocent looking, like a cherub- angel in child form

Front 35

obese; obesity

Back 35

extremely overweight, corpulent, portly (skinny); excessive body weight, corpulence

Front 36

pudgy

Back 36

short and plump, chubby

Front 37

attenuate

Back 37

make thin, weaken

Front 38

emaciated

Back 38

made unnaturally thin; abnormally lean bc of starvation or illness (fleshy)

Front 39

haggard

Back 39

careworn; gaunt

Front 40

lank

Back 40

lean, ungracefully tall, lanky (burly)

Front 41

svelte

Back 41

slender, lithe

Front 42

adulation

Back 42

excessive praise, flattery

Front 43

blandishment

Back 43

word or deed of mild flattery, allurement, enticement

Front 44

cajole, cajolery

Back 44

persuade by pleasant words, wheedle, coax; persuasion by flattery, wheedling, coaxing

Front 45

curry favor

Back 45

seek to gain favor by flattery

Front 46

fulsome

Back 46

offensive bc of insincerity, repulsive, disgusting

Front 47

ingratiate

Back 47

work oneself into favor

Front 48

lackey

Back 48

follower who carries out another's wishes like a servant; toady

Front 49

obsequious

Back 49

showing excessive willingness to serve, subservient, fawning

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sycophant

Back 50

parasitic flatterer, truckler

Front 51

truckle

Back 51

submit in a subservient manner to a superior, fawn, make a doormat of oneself