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Vocabulary: joy and happiness

In these first days of the New Year, and after living such terrible months in the whole world, it may be useful and necessary to revise the vocabulary of JOY and HAPPINESS, so as not to miss the opportunity to share these feelings and to keep a positive state of mind.

To be thrilled

To be joyfull

Delight=> to be delighted

To be happy/ happiness	delight
Joy/ joyful/ joyous	joyously/ joyfully
To jump for joy	overjoyed thrilled ecstatic
Glad/ pleased	delighted

Pleased to see you/ pleased seeing you...

To delight sb	To rejoice over something
Rejoicings	Pleasure/ enjoyment
To take pleasure in sg/ To take pleasure in doing stg	To take delight in/ To delight in
To please sb	Pleased with/ Satisfied with

To enjoy stg/ enjoy doing stg	to enjoy oneself
To have a good time To have fun	enjoyable/ pleasant
Cheerful/ cheerfully/ cheerfulness	liveliness buoyancy
To be lively/ buoyant/ high-spirited	light-hearted
Jolly/ jolliness	good-humoured
Carefree/ happy-go-lucky	chirpy/ perky

EXPRESSIONS :

- to be in high spirits/ to be full of beans

- to be as pleased as Punch

- To keep one's spirits up

- Keep your chin up!

- To cheer up=> Cheer up!

- to cheer sb up

- To take heart

- To be in good heart/ To be in good spirits

I hope this "optimism" will be contagious too...

Now look at the test with confidence... and thanks for working with me!

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10. The kid when he was given the present he had expected for so long.

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