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  • As she thumbed through the documents, the elation on her face dissolved into frustration.  (source)
    elation = happiness and excitement
  • Hedge charged forward with an elated "Woot!"  (source)
    elated = expressing excitement and even joy
  • He had thought that he would feel elated if they managed to steal back the Horcrux, but somehow he did not; all he felt... was worry about what would happen next.  (source)
    elated = had a feeling of happiness and excitement
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  • On the up side, I was elated to play in the bright rays of the summer sun.  (source)
    elated = had a feeling of happiness and excitement
  • But for the moment, I feel something close to elation and I let myself savor it.  (source)
    elation = a feeling of happiness and excitement
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • She said the autumn never failed to amaze her; to elate.†  (source)
  • Surveying this harvest of shirts and cigarette lighters, expensive machinery and cheap cuff links, Perry felt elatedly tall-now Mexico, a new chance, a "really living" life.†  (source)
  • No — Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.†  (source)
  • Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money.†  (source)
  • They pant for an opportunity of revenging that humiliation; and if a contest, ending in a victory on their part, should ensue, elating them in their turn, and leaving its cursed legacy of hatred and rage behind to us, there is no end to the so-called glory and shame, and to the alternations of successful and unsuccessful murder, in which two high-spirited nations might engage.†  (source)
  • They were so elated by their own hospitality, and by all the goodies waiting inside, that they did not take a good look at their guests while they sang.  (source)
    elated = had a feeling of happiness and excitement
  • The elation of his escape had faded rapidly, leaving him with pain and thoughts of his new life in the Glade.  (source)
    elation = intense feeling of happiness and excitement
  • Therefore I go, dubious, but elate; apprehensive of intolerable pain; yet I think bound in my adventuring to conquer after huge suffering, bound, surely, to discover my desire in the end.†  (source)
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