AP Lang: Chapter 3 Vocab

Bliss

(N) perfect happiness

Blissful

(Adj) very happy

Blithe

(Adj) 1. Merry; joyous
2. Heedless

Buoy

(V) keep afloat; raise the spirits of; encourage

Buoyant

(Adj) 1. Cheerful
2. Able to float

Complacency

(N) self-satisfaction; smugness

Complacent

(Adj) too pleased with oneself—often without awareness of possible dangers or defects; self-satisfied; smug

Convivial

(Adj) fond of eating and drinking with friends; sociable

Conviviality

(N) sociability

Delectable

(Adj) very pleasing; delightful

Ascetic

(Adj) shunning pleasures; self-denying; austere

Ascetic

(N) person who shuns pleasures and lives simply

Chagrin

(N) embarrassment; mortification; disappointment

Chagrined

(Adj) ashamed; mortified

Compunction

(N) regret; remorse; misgiving; qualm; scruple

Contrite

(Adj) showing deep regret and sorrow for wrongdoing; deeply penitent; repentant; remorseful

Contrition

(N) repentance; remorse; penitence

Dejected

(Adj) sad; in low spirits; depressed; downcast

Dejection

(N) lowness of spirits; sadness; depression

Disconsolate

(Adj) cheerless; inconsolable

Disgruntled

(Adj) in bad humor; displeased; discontented

Doleful

(Adj) causing grief or sadness; mournful; dolorous; lugubrious

Glum

(Adj) moody; gloomy; dour

Burly

(Adj) strongly and heavily built; husky (ant. lank)

Buxom

(Adj) plump and attractive

Cherubic

(Adj) chubby and innocent-looking; like a cherub (angel in the form of a child)

Obese

(Adj) extremely overweight; corpulent; portly (ant. skinny)

Obesity

(N) excessive body weight; corpulence

Pudgy

(Adj) short and plump; chubby

Attenuate

(V) make thin; weaken

Emaciated

(Adj) made unnaturally thin; abnormally lean because of starvation or illness (ant. fleshy)

Haggard

(Adj) careworn; gaunt

Lank

(Adj) lean; un gracefully tall; lanky (ant. burly)

Svelte

(Adj) slender; lithe