Vocabulary for the College Bound Student - Chapter 3 (Groups 1-5)

Group 1-5: Joy, Sadness, Stout, Thin, Flattery

Bliss (group 1)

perfect happiness

Blissful (group 1)

very happy

Blithe (group 1)

1. merry; joyous

2. heedless

Buoy (group 1)

keep afloat; raise the spirits of; encourage

Buoyant (group 1)

1. cheerful

2. able to float

Complacency (group 1)

self-satisfaction; smugness

Complacent (group 1)

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

Convivial (group 1)

fond of eating and drinking with friends; sociable

Conviviality (group 1)

sociability

Delectable (group 1)

very pleasing; delightful

Ecstasy (group 1)

state of over-whelming joy; rapture

Ecstatic (group 1)

in ecstasy; enraptured

Elated (group 1)

in high spirits; joyful

Elation (group 1)

state of being elated; euphoria

Frolic (group 1)

play and run about happily; have fun; romp

Frolicsome (group 1)

full of merriment; playful

Gala (group 1)

characterized by festivity

Jocund (group 1)

merry; cheerful; lighthearted

Jubilant (group 1)

showing great joy; rejoicing; exultant

Jubilation (group 1)

rejoicing; exultation

Ascetic (adj.) (group 2)

shunning pleasures; self-denying; austere

Ascetic (n.) (group 2)

person who shuns pleasures and lives simply

Chagrin (group 2)

embarrassment; mortification; disappointment

Chagrined (group 2)

ashamed; mortified

Compunction (group 2)

regret; remorse; misgiving; qualm; scruple

Contrite (group 2)

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

Contrition (group 2)

repentance; remorse; penitence

Dejected (group 2)

sad; low in spirits; depressed; downcast

Dejection (group 2)

lowness of spirits; sadness; depression

Disconsolate (group 2)

cheerless; inconsolable

Disgruntled (group 2)

in bad humor; displeased; discontented

Doleful (group 2)

causing grief or sadness; mournful; dolorous; lugubrious

Glum (group 2)

moody; gloomy; dour

Lament (group 2)

mourn; deplore

Lamentable (group 2)

pitiable; rueful

Maudlin (group 2)

weakly sentimental and tearful

Nostalgia (group 2)

1. homesickness

2. yearning for the past

Nostalgic (group 2)

homesick

Pathetic (group 2)

arousing pity

Pathos (group 2)

quality in events or in art (literature, music, etc.) that arouses our pity

Pensive (group 2)

thoughtful in a sad way; melancholy

Plight (group 2)

unfortunate state; predicament

Poignant (group 2)

painfully touching; piercing

Sullen (group 2)

resentfully silent; glum; morose; gloomy

Throes (group 2)

anguish; pangs

Tribulation (group 2)

suffering; distress

Burly (group 3)

strongly and heavily built; husky (ant. lank)

Buxom (group 3)

plump and attractive

Cherubic (group 3)

chubby and innocent-looking; like a cherub

Obese (group 3)

extremely overweight; corpulent; portly (ant. skinny)

Obesity (group 3)

excessive body weight; corpulence

Pudgy (group 3)

short and plump; chubby

Attenuate (group 4)

make thin; weaken

Emaciated (group 4)

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

Haggard (group 4)

careworn; gaunt

Lank (group 4)

lean; gracefully tall; lanky (ant. burly)

Svelte (group 4)

slender; lithe

Adulation (group 5)

excessive praise; flattery

Blandishment (group 5)

word or deed of mild flattery; allurement; enticement

Cajole (group 5)

persuade by pleasant words; wheedle; coax

Cajolery (group 5)

persuasion by flattery; wheedling; coaxing

Curry Favor (group 5)

seek to gain favor by flattery

Fulsome (group 5)

offensive because of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting

Ingratiate (group 5)

work (oneself) into faver

Lackey (group 5)

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

Obsequious (group 5)

showing excessive willingness to serve; subservient; fawning

Sycophant (group 5)

parasitic flattery; tuckler

Truckle (group 5)

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