It pays to have the right words at your disposal, no matter what the situation. Try using some of the words below when you have the opportunity.
You win the lottery. How do you feel? Maybe jubilant, elated, euphoric, or ecstatic?
You want to recommend a book that you're reading: Rather than saying it's merely a "good" book, describe it as absorbing, engrossing, or riveting.
A few alternatives to "laughing": chortling (coined by Lewis Carroll); chuckling; giggling (mostly the province of teenage girls?); guffawing (exclusive to older guys?); tittering.
A "friendly" or "nice" person: use something fresh, such as affable (Larry David was just trying to be that in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm); amiable ("Why wasn't he amiable in his lifetime?," Mrs. Dilber wonders in A Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim); gregarious; personable.
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