What Are Emotions For Flashcards

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Ponder

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To think carefully

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Confine

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To limit an activity (confined to a wheelchair)

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Perish

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To die, especially in accident (They perished for their daughter)

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Incident

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An event that is either unpleasant or unusual (incidents of parental sacrifice)

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Progeny

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The young or offspring of a person

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Potency

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Strength, influence, or effectiveness (potency of emotion)

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Altruistic

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Willing to do things that brings advantage to others

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Affair

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A situation that causes string public feeling

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Override

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To take control over sth

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Preeminence

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More important or powerful than all others

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Conjecture

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A guess about sth based on how it seems not on proof

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Psyche

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Deepest thoughts, feelings, or beliefs

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Predicament

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An unpleasant situation that is difficult to get out

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Persist

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Continuous to exist (unpleasant feeling)

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Recur

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To happen again (recurring challenges of human life)

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Repertoire

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All the music or plays that you know

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Attest

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To show sth is true

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Imprint

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Shortsighted

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Showing a lack of thought for what will happen in the future

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Sway (noun)

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Control or influence

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Legacy

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Sth that is part of your history

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Impel

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To make sone feel that they must do sth

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Intruder (noun)

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Sone who is in the place where they are not wanted (fourteen year old Matilda)

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Prowl (verb)

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To move around quietly in a place trying not to be seen or heard

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Primed (verb)
To make a gun ready to fire
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Etch (verb)
To cut a pattern in a surface (Rory ordered a baseball bat with his own name etched in the wood)
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Presume
To believe in sth, even you are not certain
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Matter (verb)
To be important or to affect what happens
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Bear (verb)
To accept sth, especially sth unpleasant
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Predisposition
The state of being likely to suffer from a particular disease
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Rapidity (noun)
Quality of being fast
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Harness (verb)
To control sth, usually in order to use its power
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Subdue
To reduce the force of sth
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Enforce
To make people obey a law
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Circuitry
Connected arrangements of the wires (neural circuitry of emotion)
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Appraisal
An examination of the value, condition
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Tragic
Very sad (often involving death)
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Propensity
A tendency to behave in a particular way (especially bad)
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Dilemma
A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made
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Tailor (verb)
To make or prepare sth following particular instructions