englishvocab 2
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- cajolery
- persuasion by flattery
- lament
- mourn
- lank
- lean and ungracefully tall
- ingratiate
- work oneself into favor
- emaciated
- made unnaturally thin
- pensive
- melancholy
- ecstatic
- enraptured
- disgruntled
- in bad humor
- nostalgia
- yearning for the past
- sycophant
- parasitic flatterer
- ascetic
- shunning pleasures
- blissfull
- very happy
- fulsome
- offensive because of insincerity
- gala
- characterized by festivity
- sullen
- glum; morose
- bliss
- perfect happiness
- dejected
- sad
- jubilation
- rejoicing
- buoyant
- cheerful; able to float
- lamentable
- pitiable
- nostalgic
- homesick
- adulation
- excessive praise
- throes
- pangs
- convivial
- fond of eating and drinking with friends
- contrition
- repentance
- contrite
- showing deep regret for wrongdoing
- complacent
- too pleased with oneself
- jubilant
- showing great joy
- haggard
- careworn
- dejection
- lowness of spirits
- elation
- euphoria
- conviviality
- sociability
- frolicsome
- playful
- truckle
- to submit in a subservient manner
- complacency
- smugness
- poignant
- painfully touching
- attenuate
- make thin
- lackey
- follower who is almost one's servant
- svelte
- slender
- blithe
- merry; heedless
- tribulation
- suffering
- obese
- extremely overweight
- plight
- unfortunate state
- glum
- moody
- pudgy
- short and plump
- compunction
- regret
- pathetic
- arousing pity
- chargrined
- ashamed
- ascetic
- person who lives simply
- disconsolate
- cheerless
- cherubic
- chubby and innocent looking
- cajole
- persuade by pleasant words
- obesity
- excessive body weight
- obsequious
- excessive willingness to serve
- ecstasy
- state of overwhelming joy
- jocund
- merry, cheerful, lighthearted
- chagrin
- embarrassment
- delectable
- very pleasing
- buoy
- to keep afloat; raise spirits of
- buxom
- plump and attractive
- maudlin
- weakly sentimental
- elated
- in high spirits
- curry favor
- to gain favor by flattery
- burly
- strong and heavily built
- frolic
- play and run about happily
- blandishment
- word or deed of mild flattery
- pathos
- quality in events or art that arouses pity
- doleful
- causing grief or sadness