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AP Language And Composition Vocabulary 1-3 > Vocab 2: Emotions > Flashcards

Vocab 2: Emotions Flashcards

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Aura

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The air, feeling, distinctive atmosphere or quality (surrounded or generated by a person, thing, or place)

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Bombastic

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Pompous, high sounding but with little meanings; inflated

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Buoyant

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Cheerful, floating

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Callous

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Insensitive, cruel

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Cantankerous

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Irritable, bad tempered, argumentative, uncooperative

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Capricious

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Sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior

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Caustic

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Sarcastic in a bitter way

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Convivial

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Sociable, lively, enjoyable

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Demonstrative

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Showing feelings (affection) openly

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Despondent

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Depressed, sad, in low spirit from loss of hope and courage

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Diffident

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Shy because of a lack of self confidence

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Discomfit

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Make someone uncomfortable or embarrassed

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Disillusioned

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Disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed

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Dispassionate

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Not influenced by strong emotion, and so able to be rational and impartial

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Elated

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Ecstatically happy

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Evoke

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To call up, bring out

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Felicitous

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Well chosen or suited; pleasant and fortunate

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Forlorn

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Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely

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Fortitude

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Courage in pain or adversity

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Furor

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An outbreak of public anger or excitement

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Histrionic

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Idyllic

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Impetuous

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Irate

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Jaded

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Jocular

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Jovial

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Maudlin

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Melancholy

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Mercurial

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Morose

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Peevish

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Penchant

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Perfunctory

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Petulant

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Profound

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Propensity

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Repugnant

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Reticent

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Sanguine

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Solace

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Somber

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Temperamental

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Trepidation

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Truculent

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Vicarious

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Wrath

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Extreme anger

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