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Vocab #2 Flashcards

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Complacent

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Self satisfied

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Blithe

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Merry, cheerful, happy

Ex. I was so enraptured with the scenery that I drove right through the intersection in blithe of the “Full Stop” sign.

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Convivial

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Fond of eating eating and drinking with friends; jovial

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Ascetic

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Shunning pleasures, self-denying

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Chagrin

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Embarrassed; mortification; disappointment

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Contrite

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

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Disconsolate

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Cheerless, inconsolable

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Maudlin

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Weakly sentimental and tearful

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Nostalgia

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Homesickness

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Pathos

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

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Pensive

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Thoughtful in a sad way, melancholy

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Poignant

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Painfully touching, piercing

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Emaciated

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Made unnaturally thin

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Adulation

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Excessive praise, flattery

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Ingratiate

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Work oneself into favor

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Obsequious

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Slavishly attentive, fawning

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Sycophant

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Parasitic flatterer

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Benign

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Not dangerous

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Malignant

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  1. Threatening to cause death

2. Very evil

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Morbid

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  1. Gruesome

2. Having to do with disease

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Laudable

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Praiseworthy, commendable

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Malign

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Speak evil of; vilify; traduce

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Caricature

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Drawing, imitation, or description that ridiculously exaggerates peculiarities or defects

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Facetious

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  1. In the habit of joking

2. Said in jest without serious intent

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Flippant

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Treating serious matters lightly

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Levity

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Lack of proper seriousness, trifling gaiety; frivolity

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Sardonic

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Bitterly sarcastic, mocking, sneering

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Alacrity

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Cheerful willingness: readiness; liveliness

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Volition

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Will

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Ethereal

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Of the heavens, celestial, airy, delicate, intangible

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