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| accomplish |
When you accomplish something, you finally do something or finish something that you've needed to do. Usually, when you accomplish something, you feel good about it or just feel glad that it's done. Often it takes a lot of work or effort to accomplish something. |
| celebration |
Celebration is the act of honoring something and making it special. It is doing things to remember how great or important it was or to show how glad you are that it happened or that it will happen. Celebration is often fun and filled with things that we enjoy, but some forms of celebration are serious. [1/2 definitions] |
| cheer |
glad feelings; happiness. [1/6 definitions] |
| fortunately |
When we say something like "Fortunately, nobody got hurt," we mean that it was a good and lucky thing that nobody got hurt. We use "fortunately" when we know that a bad thing could have happened but we are glad that it didn't. |
| glad |
When you are glad, you are happy because something good happened or is going to happen. [2 definitions] |
| happiness |
the fact or condition of being happy or glad. |
| happy |
feeling joy or pleasure; being glad or content. [1/2 definitions] |
| joyful |
feeling, showing, or causing great happiness; glad; happy. |
| unhappy |
not glad or cheerful; sad; full of gloom. [1/2 definitions] |
| welcome |
to be glad to receive or accept. [1/8 definitions] |
| willingness |
the state of being ready or glad to do something without being forced to do it. |
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