What Are Emotions For Flashcards

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Ponder

A

To think carefully

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2
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Confine

A

To limit an activity (confined to a wheelchair)

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3
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Perish

A

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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5
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Progeny

A

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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7
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Altruistic

A

Willing to do things that brings advantage to others

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8
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Affair

A

A situation that causes string public feeling

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9
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Override

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To take control over sth

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10
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Preeminence

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More important or powerful than all others

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11
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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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12
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Psyche

A

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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14
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Persist

A

Continuous to exist (unpleasant feeling)

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15
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Recur

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To happen again (recurring challenges of human life)

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16
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Repertoire

A

All the music or plays that you know

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17
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Attest

A

To show sth is true

18
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Imprint

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To mark

19
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Shortsighted

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

20
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Sway (noun)

A

Control or influence

21
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Legacy

A

Sth that is part of your history

22
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Impel

A

To make sone feel that they must do sth

23
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Intruder (noun)

A

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

24
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Prowl (verb)

A

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

25
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Primed (verb)

A

To make a gun ready to fire

26
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Etch (verb)

A

To cut a pattern in a surface (Rory ordered a baseball bat with his own name etched in the wood)

27
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Presume

A

To believe in sth, even you are not certain

28
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Matter (verb)

A

To be important or to affect what happens

29
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Bear (verb)

A

To accept sth, especially sth unpleasant

30
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Predisposition

A

The state of being likely to suffer from a particular disease

31
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Rapidity (noun)

A

Quality of being fast

32
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Harness (verb)

A

To control sth, usually in order to use its power

33
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Subdue

A

To reduce the force of sth

34
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Enforce

A

To make people obey a law

35
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Circuitry

A

Connected arrangements of the wires (neural circuitry of emotion)

36
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Appraisal

A

An examination of the value, condition

37
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Tragic

A

Very sad (often involving death)

38
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Propensity

A

A tendency to behave in a particular way (especially bad)

39
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Dilemma

A

A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made

40
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Tailor (verb)

A

To make or prepare sth following particular instructions