euphoric
yoo-FOR-ikadjMeaning intensely happy and excited
Memory hook yoo-FOR-ik: floating like a UFO. Tia finishes her first marathon and feels so light with joy that she could float off into the sky like a UFO. She is euphoric.
The euphoric climbers hugged and took pictures on the summit.
In context Crossing the finish line of her first marathon, Tia felt euphoric: the ache in her legs vanished, and she laughed and cried at the same time.
Similar elated, ecstatic, overjoyed, exhilarated
Opposite depressed, miserable, gloomy
From Greek euphoria, “well-being,” from euphoros, “bearing well”: eu (well) + pherein (to bear).