chapter 3 vocab
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52 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 bliss | perfect happiness |
| blithe | merry; cheerful; happy |
| buoyant | cheerful able to float |
| complacent | self-satisfied |
| convivial | fond of eating and drinking with friends; jovial |
| delectable | very pleasing; delightful |
| ecstasy | stave of overwhelming joy; rapture |
| elated | in high spirits; joyful |
| frolicsome | full of merriment; playful |
| gala | characterized by festivity |
| jocund | merry; cheerful |
| jubilation | rejoicing |
| ascetic | shunning pleasures; self-denying a person who shuns pleasure |
| chagrin | embarrassment; mortification; disappointment |
| compunction | regret; remorse; misgiving; qualm |
| contrite | showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing; deeply penitent; repentant |
| dejected | sad; in low spirits; depressed |
| disconsolate | cheerless; inconsolable |
| disgruntled | in bad humor; displeased |
| doleful | full of sorrow; mournful; dolorous |
| glum | moody; gloomy; dour |
| lamentable | pitiable; rueful |
| maudlin | weakly sentimental and tearful |
| nostalgia | homesickness yearning for the past |
| pathetic | arousing pity |
| pathos | quality in events or in art (literature, music, etc.) that arouses our pity |
| pensive | thoughtful in a sad way; melancholy |
| plight | unfortunate state; predicament |
| poignant | painfully touching; piercing |
| sullen | ill-humoredly silent; gloomy; morose |
| throes | anguish; pangs |
| tribulation | suffering; distress |
| burly | stout; husky and rough |
| buxom | plump and attractive |
| cherubic | chubby and innocent looking; like a cherub (angel in the form of a child) |
| obese | very fat; corpulent; porky |
| pudgy | short and fat |
| attenuate | make thin; weaken |
| emaciated | made unnaturally thin |
| haggard | careworn; gaunt |
| lank | long and thin; slender |
| svelte | slender; lithe |
| adulation | excessive praise; flattery |
| blandishment | word or deed of mild flattery |
| cajole | persuade by pleasant words; wheedle |
| curry favor | seek to gain favor by flattery |
| fulsome | offensive because of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting |
| ingratiate | wok oneself into favor |
| lackey | slavish follower |
| obsequious | slavish attentive; fawning |
| sycophant | parasitic flatterer |
| truckle | submit servilely to a superior |
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