ECSTASY (Noun)

Meaning- 1) a state of great happiness especially when feeling pleasure.

                    2) an illegal drug that is used to produce a feeling of excitement and pleasure.

Mnemonic trick- The word ecstasy contains two words ‘ecs’ and ‘tasy’. Ecs sounds similar to exs. Tasy sounds similar to tasty. While enjoying something tasty, we are in state of great happiness. Therefore, ecstasy means a state of great happiness especially when feeling pleasure.

Ecs sounds similar to exs. After getting illegal drug, we get excited about our sexual ecstasy with our exs. Therefore, ecstasy is an illegal drug that is used to produce a feeling of excitement and anger.

Synonym- EUPHORIA, EXHILARATION, RAPTURE, PARADISE

Uses-

• ·         Sexual ecstasy.
• ·         She threw her head back as if in ecstasy.
• ·         You should have seen her ecstasy, and how he caught it for having stayed away so long.
• ·         He enters at length into the conditions of ecstasy and the yearning that precede it.