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Blissful

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Very happy

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Bliss

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Perfect happiness

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Blithe

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Merry
Joyous
Heedless

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Buoy

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Keep afloat; raise the spirits of; encourage

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Buoyant

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Cheerful

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Complacency

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Self satisfaction; smugness

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Complacent

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Too please with one self– often without awareness of possible danger or defects; self- satisfied; smug

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Convivial

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Fond of eating and drinking with friends; sociable

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Conviviality

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Sociability

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Delectable

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Very pleasing; delightful

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Ecstasy

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State of overwhelming joy

Rapture

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Ecstatic

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In ecstasy

Enraptured

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Elated

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In high spirits; joyful

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Elation

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State of being elated; euphoria

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Frolic

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Play and run about happily; have fun; romp

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Frolicsome

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Full of merriment; playful

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Gala

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Characterized by festivity

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Jocund

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Merry
Cheerful
Lighthearted

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Jubilant

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Showing great joy; rejoicing; exultant

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Ascetic

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Sunning pleasures
Self denying
Austere

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Ascetic

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Person who shuns pleasures and lives simply

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Chagrin

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Embarrassment
Mortification
Disappointment

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Chagrined

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Ashamed

Mortified

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Compunction

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Regret; remorse; misgiving; qualm

Scruple

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Contrite

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

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Contrition

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Repentance; remorse; penitence

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Dejected

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Sad; in low spirits; depressed; downcast

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Dejection

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Lowness of spirits
Sadness
Depression

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Disconsolate

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Cheerless; inconsolable

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Disgruntled

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In bad humor; displeased; discontented

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Doleful

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Causing grief or sadness; mournful; dolorous; lugubrious

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Glum

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Moody; gloomy; dour

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Lament

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Mourn; deplore

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Lamentable

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Pitiable

Rueful

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Maudlin

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Weakly sentimental and tearful

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Nostalgia

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Homesickness

Yearning for the past

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Nostalgic

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Pathetic

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Arousing pity

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Pathos

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Quality in events or in art that arouses our pity

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Pensive

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Thoughtful in a sad way; melancholy

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Plight

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Unfortunate state; predicament

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Poignant

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Painfully touching; piercing

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Sullen

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Resentfully silent; glum; morose; gloomy

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Throes

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Anguish

Pangs

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Tribulation

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Suffering; distress

Ch 3 Sets 1and 2 (2 decks)

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