Emotions and reactions

Question 1

crave/have a craving for

Answer 1

want very strongly

Question 2

thirst/have a thirst for

Answer 2

feel very strongly that you want

Question 3

yearns to do/yearn for/ have a yearning for

Answer 3

want something that you do not have and often can never have

Question 4

to covet something

Answer 4

to want to possess it very much

Question 5

defuse

Answer 5

make a dangerous or tense situation calmer

Question 6

placate

Answer 6

stop someone feeling angry (implacable hatred)

Question 7

conciliate

Answer 7

end a disagreement between two people or groups by acting in a friendly way towards both sides; formal

Question 8

appeasing

Answer 8

end a disagreemant by giving the other side an advantage that they are demanding (normally used in a disapproving way); formal

Question 9

exultant

Answer 9

feeling great pleasure and happiness, usually because of a succes (more formal than ecstatic)

Question 10

ecstatic

Answer 10

feeling great rapture or delight

Question 11

jubilant

Answer 11

expressing great happiness, especially at victory; formal

Question 11

to rejoice

Answer 11

be extremely happy; formal

Question 12

bliss

Answer 12

perfect happiness (collocates with utter and sheer, adj. = blissful, adv. = blissfully; collocates with happy, ignorant and unaware)

Question 13

full of the joys of springs

Answer 13

to be very happy

Question 14

thrilled to bits

Answer 14

to be very happy

Question 15

to feel on top of the world

Answer 15

to be very happy

Question 16

floating/walking on air

Answer 16

to be very happy

Question 17

over the moon

Answer 17

to be very happy