What Are Emotions For Flashcards
Ponder
To think carefully
Confine
To limit an activity (confined to a wheelchair)
Perish
To die, especially in accident (They perished for their daughter)
Incident
An event that is either unpleasant or unusual (incidents of parental sacrifice)
Progeny
The young or offspring of a person
Potency
Strength, influence, or effectiveness (potency of emotion)
Altruistic
Willing to do things that brings advantage to others
Affair
A situation that causes string public feeling
Override
To take control over sth
Preeminence
More important or powerful than all others
Conjecture
A guess about sth based on how it seems not on proof
Psyche
Deepest thoughts, feelings, or beliefs
Predicament
An unpleasant situation that is difficult to get out
Persist
Continuous to exist (unpleasant feeling)
Recur
To happen again (recurring challenges of human life)
Repertoire
All the music or plays that you know
Attest
To show sth is true
Imprint
To mark
Shortsighted
Showing a lack of thought for what will happen in the future
Sway (noun)
Control or influence
Legacy
Sth that is part of your history
Impel
To make sone feel that they must do sth
Intruder (noun)
Sone who is in the place where they are not wanted (fourteen year old Matilda)
Prowl (verb)
To move around quietly in a place trying not to be seen or heard
Primed (verb)
To make a gun ready to fire
Etch (verb)
To cut a pattern in a surface (Rory ordered a baseball bat with his own name etched in the wood)
Presume
To believe in sth, even you are not certain
Matter (verb)
To be important or to affect what happens
Bear (verb)
To accept sth, especially sth unpleasant
Predisposition
The state of being likely to suffer from a particular disease
Rapidity (noun)
Quality of being fast
Harness (verb)
To control sth, usually in order to use its power
Subdue
To reduce the force of sth
Enforce
To make people obey a law
Circuitry
Connected arrangements of the wires (neural circuitry of emotion)
Appraisal
An examination of the value, condition
Tragic
Very sad (often involving death)
Propensity
A tendency to behave in a particular way (especially bad)
Dilemma
A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made
Tailor (verb)
To make or prepare sth following particular instructions