Vocabulary List 1

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Bliss

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N: complete happiness

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Buoyant

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Adj: cheerful, gay

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Complacent

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Adj: pleased, self satisfied

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Convivial

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Adj: friendly; agreeable

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Delectable

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Adj: highly pleasing : delightful

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Ectasy

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N: a state of overwhelming emotion; especially : rapturous delight

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Elation

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N: state of being elated (marked by high spirits)

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Frolicsome

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Adj: full of gaiety : playful, sportive

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Gala

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N: a festive celebration; especially : a public entertainment marking a special occasion

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Jocund

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Adj: marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness

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Jubilant

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Adj: filled with or expressing great joy or triumph

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Ascetic

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Adj: practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline

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Chagrin

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N: disquietude or distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure

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Compunction

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N: distress of mind over an anticipated action or result

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Contrition

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N: the state of being contrite (feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for a sin or shortcoming )

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Dejection

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N: lowness of spirits

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Disconsolate

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Adj: cheerless

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Disgruntled

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Transitive Verb: to make ill-humored or discontented —usually used as a participial adjective

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Doleful

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Adj: causing grief or affliction

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Glum

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Adj: dreary, gloomy

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Lament

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V: to mourn aloud : wail

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Maudlin

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Adj: drunk enough to be emotionally silly

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Nostalgic

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N: the state of being homesick : homesickness

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Pathetic

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Adj: having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity

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Pensive

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Adj: suggestive of sad thoughtfulness

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Poignant

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Adj: painfully affecting the feelings : piercing

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Sullen

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Adj: gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed

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Burly

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Adj: strongly and heavily built

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Buxom

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Adj: vigorously or healthily plump; specifically : full-bosomed

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Cherubic

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Adj: an innocent-looking usually chubby and rosy person

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Corpulent

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Adj: having a large bulky body

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Obese

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Adj: having excessive body fat

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Pudgy

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Adj: being short and plump : chubby

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Attenuate

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Adj: tapering gradually usually to a long slender point

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Emaciate

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V: to waste away physically

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Haggard

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Adj: having a worn or emaciated appearance : gaunt

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Lank

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Adj: not well filled out : slender, thin

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Svelte

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Adj: slender, lithe (easily bent or flexed)

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Adulation

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N: excessive or slavish admiration or flattery

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Blandishment

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N: something that tends to coax or cajole

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Cajole

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Transitive Verb: to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance

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Fulsome

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Adj: excessively complimentary or flattering

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Ingratiate

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Transitive Verb: to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort —usually used with with

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Lackey

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N: someone who does menial tasks or runs errands for another

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Obsequious

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Adj: : marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

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Sycophant

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N: a servile self-seeking flatterer

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Truckle

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Intransitive Verb: to act in a subservient manner : submit

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Encomium

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N: glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise; also

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Eulogize

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Transitive Verb: to speak or write in high praise of

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Laudable

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Adj: worthy of praise

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Plaudit

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N: enthusiastic approval —usually used in plural