feeling and emotion Flashcards
stressed
I always eat when I’m feeling stressed.
stress
Moving house often cause stress.
reduce/relieve stress
1.Don’t resort to alcohol to relieve your stress.
distressed
She felt emotionally and physically distressed.
unselfish
Their vote is an unselfish one.
selfish
selfish behaviour
appreciation
pleasure you feel when you realize sth is good, useful, or well done.
value
to think that someone or sth is important
appreciate
to understand how good or useful someone or sth is
effect
My parents’ divorce had a big effect on me.
affect
Smoking affects your health.
infuence
For centuries the country remained untouched by outside influences.
impact
Winning this competition could have a big impact on my life.
gain
to obtain or achieve sth you want or need
distress
The girls was crying and clearly in distress.
miss out(phrasal verb)
1.to not have the chance to do sth that you enjoy and would be good for you
2.to not include sth or someone
Example: Some children miss out because their parents can’t afford to pay school trips.
sensational
/senˈseɪʃənəl/
(adj) very interesting, exciting, and surprising
1. The show was a sensational success.
2. sensational newspaper stories
3. a sensational discovery
It doesn’t matter
It ‘s not important
I don’t mind
It doesn’t matter to me.
clumsy
adjective (comparative clumsier, superlative clumsiest)
*moving or doing things in a careless way, especially so that you drop things, knock into things etc.
1. A clumsy waiter spilled wine all over her new skirt.
2.She was very clumsy and was always walking into doors.
instinct
(n) a natural tendency to behave in a particular way or a natural ability to know something, which is not learned → intuition
1. Animals have a natural instinct for survival.
2. Kate’s maternal instinct told her to pick the child up and comfort it.
temperament
(n) the emotional part of someone’s character, especially how likely they are to be happy, angry etc
1. Jill has such a lovely relaxed temperament.
2. Young children have very different temperaments and so the style of management of one child may not suit another.
rewarding
(adj) making you feel happy and satisfied because you feel you are doing something useful or important, even if you do not earn much money → satisfying, worthwhile
1. Teaching can be a very rewarding career.
2.International travel can be a rich and rewarding adventure.
endure
/ɪnˈdjʊə $ ɪnˈdʊr/
(v) to be in a difficult or painful situation for a long time without complaining
1. It seemed impossible that anyone could endure such pain.
2. He can’t endure being apart from me.
sophisticated
(adj) having a lot of experience of life, and good judgment about socially important things such as art, fashion etc
1. a highly sophisticated weapons system
2. British voters have become much more sophisticated.
sophistication
(n) 1. a New York nightclub that was the height of sophistication (=very fashionable and expensive)
accommodating
(adj) helpful and willing to do what someone else wants…… OPP awkward
1. an accommodating child
2.Most of the hotel staff was very accommodating.
fortune
/ˈfɔːtʃən $ ˈfɔːr-/ noun
chance or luck, and the effect that it has on your life
1.I had the good fortune to work with a brilliant head of department.
2. I felt it was useless to struggle against fortune.
luck
/lʌk/ noun [uncountable]
1 SUCCESS (also good luck) good things that happen to you by chance
1. He’s had good luck with his roses this year.
2. It was only by luck that they managed to avoid hitting the rocks near the shore.
lucky
ˈlʌki/ adjective (comparative luckier, superlative luckiest)
having good luck SYN fortunate OPP unlucky
1. The children were lucky to survive the fire which destroyed their home.
2. those of us lucky enough to own our own homes
pleasant
با تاکید بر تلفظ صحیح
ˈplezənt/ ●●○ S3 W3 adjective
*enjoyable or attractive and making you feel happy SYN nice, → pleasure
1. It had been a pleasant evening.
2. the pleasant climate of Southern California
3.The restaurant was large and pleasant.
Kate!
4.What a pleasant surprise!
afraid
/əˈfreɪd/ ●●● S1 W2 adjective [not before noun]
frightened because you think that you may get hurt or that something bad may happen SYN scared
**be/feel afraid
1. There’s no need to be afraid.
**afraid of something
2. Many children are afraid of the dark.
**afraid of somebody
3.I was a little afraid of him when I first met him.
injured
/ˈɪndʒəd $ -ərd/ ●●○ AWL adjective
* having a wound or damage to part of your body → wounded
1.I got injured while playing soccer and had to go to the hospital.
2.The worker got injured on the job when a heavy object fell on his foot.
3.She got injured in a car accident and is recovering at home.
4.an injured bird
5.Chelsea have three injured players.
6.Grandpa was badly injured in the war.
7.The car accident left him seriously injured.
scared
/skeəd $ skerd/ ●●● S3 adjective
frightened of something, or nervous about something (SYN afraid)
1.At first, he was really scared.
scared of somebody/something
2.I’ve always been scared of dogs.
**scared of doing something
3.Don’t be scared of asking for help.
**scared (that)
4.I wanted to ask her out, but was scared that she might refuse.
**scared to do something
5.The boys were scared to cross the street.
6.What’s the matter? You look scared.
7.It was now completely dark and I was getting scared.
8. I got scared.
9.I was scared.
injure
ˈɪndʒə $ -ər/ ●●● W3 AWL verb [transitive]
*to hurt yourself or someone else, for example in an accident or an attack → wound
1.Angus injured his leg playing rugby.
**be badly/seriously/critically injured
2.Two people have been critically injured in an accident.
3.Several shots were fired, critically injuring three women.
4.Tom injured his shoulder playing tennis.
5.I injured sb on the street.
enjoy
/ɪnˈdʒɔɪ/ ●●● S1 W1 verb [transitive]
* to get pleasure from something
1. Sandra enjoys her job in the city.
2. I enjoyed every minute of it.
3.* Some of the workers enjoy a relatively high degree of job security.
enjoy doing something(*enjoy +v +ing )
4. Young children enjoy helping around the house
5.I enjoyed watching the game on TV.
exciting
adjective
/ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ/
*causing great interest or excitement
1.This is an exciting opportunity for me.
2.one of the most exciting developments in biology in recent years
3.an exciting prospect/possibility
exhausted
adjective
/ɪɡˈzɑː.stɪd/
*extremely tired:
1.Exhausted, they fell asleep.
2.By the time they reached the summit they were exhausted.
من به شدت احساس خستگی می کنم
I feel exhausted.
اون به شدت خسته کننده است
It is exhausting.
من بی حوصله ام
I am bored.
embarrassed
adj
/ɪmˈber.əst/
*feeling ashamed or shy:
embarrassed about:1. She felt embarrassed about undressing in front of the doctor.
2.[ + to infinitive ] I was too embarrassed to admit that I was scared.
fascinated
adj
/ˈfæs.ən.eɪ.tɪd/ = very surprised
*extremely interested:
1.We watched fascinated as he cleaned and repaired the watch.
fascinated to:2. I was fascinated to hear about his travels in Japan.
thrilled
adj
/θrɪld/
*extremely happy about something:
1.[ + that ] I was thrilled that so many people turned up to the party.
in general
+
at all
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enormous
/əˈnɔːr.məs/
extremely large:
1.an enormous car/house
2.He earns an enormous salary.
disturb
verb [ T ]
/dɪˈstɝːb/
to interrupt what someone is doing:
Please don’t disturb your sister - she’s trying to do her homework.
disrupt
verb [ T ]
/dɪsˈrʌpt/
*to prevent something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected:
1.Heavy snow disrupted travel into the city this morning.
westernization
noun [ U ] (UK also westernisation)
/ˌwes.tɚ.nəˈzeɪ.ʃən/
*the process of westernizing a person or a country (= causing ideas or ways of life that are common in North America and western Europe to be more used and accepted):
1.There was an inevitable reaction to rapid westernization.
enrich
verb
/ɪnˈrɪtʃ/
*to improve the quality of something by adding something else:
1.Fertilizer helps to enrich the soil.
2.My life was greatly enriched by knowing her.
disaster
noun[CorU]
UK
/dɪˈzɑː.stər/US
/dɪˈzæs.tɚ/
(aneventthatresultsin)greatharm,damage, ordeath, orseriousdifficulty:
Aninquirywasorderedinto therecentraildisaster(= aserioustrainaccident).
disaster for:
It would be a disaster for me if Ilostmyjob.
natural disaster:This is one of theworstnaturaldisastersevertobefallthearea.
spell disaster for: Heavy andprolongedraincanspelldisaster for manyplants.
disaster strikes:Everything was goingsmoothlyuntilsuddenlydisasterstruck.
recipe for disaster: Inviting James and Ivan todinneron the sameeveningwas arecipefor disaster(=causeda verydifficultsituation)- they alwaysarguewith each other.
temper
noun
UK
/ˈtem.pər/US
/ˈtem.pɚ/
[Coften singular]
thetendencytobecomeangryveryquickly:
have a temper: She has arealtemper.
He’s got a reallybadtemper.
foul
adjective
UK
/faʊl/US
/faʊl/
extremelyunpleasant:
Thosetoiletssmellfoul!
I’ve had a fouldayatwork.
He is famous for having a bad temper and using foul language.
Why are you in such a foulmoodthismorning?
What foulweather!
nasty
adjective
UK
/ˈnɑː.sti/US
/ˈnæs.ti/
bador veryunpleasant:
a nastyshock/surprise
There’s a nastysmellin here.
He had a nastycutabove theeye.
She has a nastyhabitofpickingonpeopleinmeetings.
influential
adjective
UK
/ˌɪn.fluˈen.ʃəl/US
/ˌɪn.fluˈen.ʃəl/
having a lot ofinfluenceon someone or something:
Shewantedtoworkfor abiggerand more influential(=powerful)newspaper.
influential in:Johnson was influential(=important)inpersuadingtheproducersto putmoneyinto thefilm.
