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buoyant

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore B words

cheerful and optimistic, or able to float

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In a sentence

Buoyant in a sentence

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Despite the setbacks, her buoyant mood lifted the whole team.

Synonyms
cheerfulupbeatlightheartedresilient
Antonyms
dejecteddespondent

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Verbal · Text Completion

The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.

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Questions about “buoyant”

Buoyant (adjective) means cheerful and optimistic, or able to float
Here is buoyant used in an example sentence: "Despite the setbacks, her buoyant mood lifted the whole team."
Common synonyms for buoyant include cheerful, upbeat, lighthearted, resilient.
Antonyms of buoyant include dejected, despondent.
Buoyant is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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