Chapter 3 - Building Vocabulary Through Central Ideas
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emenhiserb on September 21, 2010
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Test for September 24th, 2010 Vocab Words
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 bliss | perfect happiness |
| blissful | very happy |
| blithe | merry; joyous |
| 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 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 |
| jubilant | showing great joy; rejoicing; exultant |
| jubilation | rejoicing; exultation |
| ascetic | shunning pleasures; self-denying; austere |
| chagrin | embarrassment; mortification; disappointment |
| chagrined | ashamed; mortified |
| compunction | regret; remore; qualm |
| contrite | showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing |
| contrition | repentance; remore; penitence |
| dejected | sad; in low spirits; depressed; downcast |
| dejection | lowness of spirits; sadness |
| disconsolate | cheerless; inconsolable |
| disgruntled | in bad humor; displeased |
| doleful | causing grief or sadness; mournful |
| glum | moody; gloomy |
| lament | mourn; deplore |
| lamentable | pitiable; rueful |
| maudlin | weakly sentimental and tearful |
| nostalgia | homesickness; yearning for the past |
| nostalgic | homesick |
| pathetic | arousing pity |
| pathos | quality in events or in art that arouses pity |
| pensive | thoughtful in a sad way; melancholy |
| plight | unfortunate state; predicament |
| poignant | painfully touching; piercing |
| sullen | resentful silent; glum; morose; gloomy |
| throes | anguish; pangs |
| tribulation | suffering distress |
| burly | strongly and heavily built; husky |
| buxom | plump and attractive |
| cherubic | chubby and innocent-looking |
| obese | extremely overweight |
| obesity | excessive body weight; corpulence |
| pudgy | short and plump |
| attenuate | make thin; weaken |
| emaciated | made unnaturally thin; abnormally lean |
| haggard | careworn; gaunt |
| lank | lean; lank |
| svelte | slender; lithe |
| adulation | excessive praise; flattery |
| blandishment | word of deed of mild flattery; allurement |
| cajole | persuade by pleasant words; wheedle; coax |
| cajolery | persuasion by flattery |
| curry; favor | seek to gain favor by flattery |
| fulsome | offensive because of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting |
| ingratiate | to work oneself into favor |
| lackey | follower who carries out another's wishes like a servant; toady |
| obsequious | showing excessive willingness to seve |
| sycophant | parasitic flatterer; truckler |
| truckle | submit in a subservient manner to a superior; fawn; make a doormat of oneself |
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