elate



brighten, buoy, cheer, cheer up, delight, elevate, encourage, exalt, excite, exhilarate, flush, gladden, gratify, inspire, lift,

   free living - carousal, carouse, debauch, debauchery, dissipation, orgy ,

   good loser - booby, duck, fall guy, loser, sport, stooge, underdog, victim ,

   what is revealed - epiphany, exposure, manifestation, outcrop, revelation ,

   holey - apertured, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, honeycombed, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, patchy, peppered, perforate, perforated,

   by forced marches - apace, at once, expeditiously, furiously, hand over fist, hastily, hotfoot, immediately, in passing, instantly, on the run, promptly, quickly, slapdash, speedily,

   ambitious - adventuresome, adventurous, aggressive, anxious, aspiring, audacious, avaricious, avid, bold, careerist, chimerical, classy, daring, driving, dynamic,

   folk-ways - acculturation, civilization, complex, culture, ethos, mores, society, trait ,

   mere scratch - epidermis, gloss, pinprick, rind, scratch, skin, superficiality, surface, triviality, veneer ,

   rewrite - amend, amendment, blue-pencil, copy, copy out, correct, correction, draft, draw up, edit, editing, emend, emendation, engross, inscribe,

   invocation of saints - agape, aspersion, celebration, circumcision, confession, confirmation, incense, invocation, litany, processional ,