Happy Words

HAPPINESS: A VOCABULARY LIST

 

  1. delighted = full of quiet surprised happiness
  2. ecstatic = full of excited joy that has to be shared
  3. elated = full of surprised joy
  4. enthusiastic = full of happy talkative agreement
  5. excited = full of noisy happy anticipation
  6. buoyant = quietly full of happy hope
  7. exhilarated = full of energy as a result of good news
  8. overjoyed = so happy that words cannot express it
  9. cheerful = showing pleasant happiness
  10. happy = feeling quietly positive
  11. gleeful = full of laughter and delight
  12. lively = showing alert happy attention
  13. merry = smiling and friendly and happy
  14. light-hearted = happily without worries
  15. contented = quietly satisfied
  16. glad = quietly happy for something
  17. genial = talkative and agreeable
  18. pleasant = smiling and politely agreeable
  19. satisfied = not wanting anything more
  20. serene = peacefully contented

Happy Words – A List

Joy, Joy, Joy: A Vocabulary Practice

A. Cloze Sentences

  1. I have everything I need. I am ____________________. (exhilarated / contented).
  2. Today, I have lots of work to do, but I will do it _______________________. (cheerfully / gleefully).
  3. I am __________________ (glad / ecstatic) that I have a teacher and can go to school.
  4. I am _________________ (overjoyed / excited) to be conducting my very own science experiment.
  5. Last week, I was ___________________ (serene / ecstatic) when I discovered that I’d earned 100% on my math test.
  6. I would not have been ____________________ (satisfied / lively) if I had earned only 50% on that test.
  7. Yesterday, the whole class was ______________ (serene / elated) when the teacher told us that we wouldn’t have our Dewey Decimal test until next week.
  8. Now that my challenging literature project is finished, I am feeling ____________________ (genial / light-hearted).
  9. Everyone in my class is _________________ (lively / gleeful) when our teacher is sharing math tricks with us so that we can get our work done more quickly.
  10. When we play games in class, everyone is very ___________________ (serene / enthusiastic) because learning is so much fun that way.

B. Matching

contented, delighted, ecstatic, exhilarated, genial, gleeful, merry, overjoyed, pleasant, serene

  1. Quietly satisfied _____________________________
  2. Happy, smiling, and friendly __________________________
  3. So happy that words cannot express it _____________________
  4. Full of quiet surprised happiness _________________________
  5. Full of energy as a result of good news _____________________
  6. Smiling and politely agreeable __________________________
  7. Full of quiet laughter and delight _________________________
  8. Peacefully contented _________________________________
  9. Talkative and agreeable _______________________________
  10. Full of excited joy that has to be shared ___________________

Vocabulary Practice – Happiness

 

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