Chapter 3 Vocab Bliss-Truckle

Bliss

Noun - perfect happiness

Blissful

Adjective - very happy

Blithe

Adjective - 1. Merry; joyous 2. Heedless

Buoy

Verb - keep afloat; raise the spirits of; encourage

Bouyant

Adjective - 1. Cheerful 2. Able to float

Complacency

Noun - self-satisfaction; smugness

Complacent

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

Convivial

Adjective - fond of eating and drinking with friends; sociable

Conviviality

Noun - sociability

Delectable

Adjective - very pleasing; delightful

Ecstasy

Noun - state of overwhelming joy; rapture

Ecstatic

Adjective - in ecstasy; enraptured

Elated

Adjective - in high spirits; joyful

Elation

Noun - state of being elated; euphoria

Frolic

Verb - play and run about happily; have fun; romp

Frolicsome

Adjective - full of merriment; playful

Gala

Adjective - characterized by festivity

Jocund

Adjective - merry; cheerful; lighthearted

Jubliant

Adjective - showing great joy; rejoicing; exultant

Jubilation

Noun - rejoicing; exultation

Ascetic (adj.)

Shunning pleasures; self-denying; austere

Ascetic (n.)

Person who shuns pleasures and lives simnply

Chagrin

Noun - embarrassment; mortification; dissapointment

Chagrined

Adjective - ashamed; mortified

Compunction

Noun - regret; remorse; misgiving; qualm; scruple

Contrite

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

Contrition

Noun - repentance; remorse; penitence

Dejected

Adjective - sad; in low spirits; depressed; downcast

Dejection

Noun - lowness of spirits; sadness; depression

Disconsolate

Adjective - cheerless; inconsolable

Disgruntled

Adjective - in bad humor; displeased; discontented

Doleful

Adjective - causing grief or sadness; mournful; dolorous; lugubrious

Glum

Adjective - moody; gloomy; dour

Lament

Verb - mourn; deplore

Lamentable

Adjective - pitiable; rueful

Maudlin

Adjective - weakly sentimental and tearful

Nostalgia

Noun - 1. homesickness 2. yearning for the past

Nostalgic

Adjective - homesick

Pathetic

Adjective - arousing pity

Pathos

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

Pensive

Adjective - thoughtful in a sad way; melancholy

Plight

Noun - unfortunate state; predicament

Poignant

Adjective - painfully touching; piercing

Sullen

Adjective - resentfully silent; glum; morose; gloomy

Throes

Noun - anguish; pangs

Tribulation

Noun - suffering; distress

Burly

Adjective - strongly and heavily built; husky (ant. Lank)

Buxom

Adjective - plump and attractive

Cherubic

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

Obese

Adjective - extremely overweight; corpulent; portly (ant. Skinny)

Obesity

Noun - excessive body weight; corpulence

Pudgy

Adjective - short and plump; chubby

Attentuate

Verb - make thin; weaken

Emaciated

Adjective - made unnaturally thin; abnormally lean because of starvation or illness (ant. Fleshy)

Haggard

Adjective - careworn; gaunt

Lank

Adjective - lean; ungracefully tall; lanky (ant. Burly)

Svelte

Adjective - slender; lithe

Adulation

Noun - excessive praise; flattery

Blandishment

Noun - word or deed of mild flattery; allurement; enticement

Cajole

Verb - persuade by pleasant words; wheedle; coax

Cajolery

Noun - Persuasion by flattery; wheedling; coaxing

Curry favor

Verb/noun - seek to gain favor by flattery

Fulsome

Adjective - offensive because of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting

Ingratiate

Verb - work (oneself) into favor

Lackey

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

Obsequious

Adjective - showing excessive willingness to serve; subservient; fawning

Sycophant

Noun - parasitic flatterer; truckler

Truckle

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