elated
ih-LAY-tidadjMeaning very happy and excited about something good
Memory hook e-LAY-ted: she LAID a golden egg!. Henrietta the hen has just laid a golden egg, and she flaps and clucks with joy. She is elated.
Maya was elated when the letter said she had made the team.
In context After months of rejection letters, the young writer was elated: a magazine had finally accepted her story and planned to print it in the spring issue.
Similar overjoyed, thrilled, delighted, exhilarated
Opposite dejected, crestfallen, despondent
From Latin elatus, “lifted up,” a form of efferre, “to carry out, to raise.”