Objective Proficiency p 28. Keys and Vocabulary

Ex 1
infuriating: 


/ɪnˈfjʊərieɪtɪŋ/ making you extremely angry. E.g. an infuriating child/delay. It is infuriating to talk to someone who just looks out of the window.



crash: 


if a computer crashes or you crash a computer, it stops working suddenly. E.g. Files can be lost if the system suddenly crashes.



be in bad, poor, the worst possible, etc. taste: 



to be offensive and not at all appropriate. E.g. Most of his jokes were in very poor taste.

be in good, the best possible, etc. taste: 



to be appropriate and not at all offensive.

cross: 



annoyed or quite angry. E.g. I was cross with him for being late. Please don't get cross. Let me explain.E.g. The thing that makes me cross the most is when computers keep crashing. As I work from home, I really need my computer and any little  problem with it makes me go berserk!

berserk: 



/bəˈzɜːk/ very angry, often in a violent or uncontrolled way. E.g. He went berserk when he found out where I'd been.

 

 

 

fold your arms (also cross your arms)  

 

 

 

 to put one of your arms over the other one and hold them against your body. E.g. He stood watching her with his arms folded across his chest. He crossed his arms and stood in the doorway looking hostile.

Arms crossed (also arms folded)
E.g. The photo shows two girls in a playground with arms crossed.
 

Flush:  



to become red, especially because you are embarrassed, angry or hot. E.g. She flushed with anger. A flushed face.
 

Freeze somebody out (of something):



 (informal) to be deliberately unfriendly to somebody, creating difficulties, etc. in order to stop or discourage them from doing something or taking part in something. Women are often silently angry and freeze out the person they are angry with.

Ex 2

What emotions (a-f) do these nouns express?

 rage, dejection, revulsion, tedium, bliss, sorrow, fury, dread, incredulity, terror, loathing, astonishment, apathy, delight.

E.g. disgust: revulsion, loathing

a. anger:

b: fear: 

c: happiness: 

d: sadness: 

e: surprise:

f: boredom:

KEY 

revulsion (at/against/from something):  


a strong feeling of disgust or horror. E.g. She felt a deep sense of revulsion at the violence. I started to feel a revulsion against their decadent lifestyle. Most people viewed the bombings with revulsion.

loathing (for/of somebody/something): 


/ˈləʊðɪŋ/ a strong feeling of hatred. E.g. She looked at her attacker with fear and loathing. Many soldiers returned with a deep loathing of war.

a. rage, fury /ˈfjʊəri/

b. dread, terror

c. bliss, delight

d. sorrow, dejection

sorrow (at/for/over something) 



 a feeling of great sadness because something very bad has happened. E.g. He expressed his sorrow at the news of her death.

dejection 



/dɪˈdʒekʃn/ a feeling of unhappiness and disappointment. E.g. She sat in the corner in utter dejection.

e. incredulity, astonishment

incredulity 



/ˌɪnkrəˈdjuːləti/ E.g. a look of surprise and incredulity

astonishment  


/əˈstɒnɪʃmənt/ a feeling of very great surprise. Amazement E.g. To my utter astonishment, she remembered my name. He stared in astonishment at the stranger.

f. tedium, apathy

tedium 


/ˈtiːdiəm/ the quality of being boring. Boredom. E.g. She longed for something to relieve the tedium of everyday life.

apathy 


/ˈæpəθi/ the feeling of not being interested in or enthusiastic about something, or things in general. E.g. There is widespread apathy among the electorate. Public/ political/ student apathy

 



Ex 3

• Rage: (in compounds) anger and violent behaviour caused by a particular situation. E.g. A case of trolley rage in the supermarket. Road rage (a situation in which a driver becomes extremely angry or violent with the driver of another car because of the way they are driving). Air rage (disruptive and/or violent behaviour perpetrated by passengers and crew of aircraft, typically during flight).
• Wild-eyed:  glaring in or as if in anger, terror, or madness. E.g. Outbursts of wild-eyed, foaming-at-the mouth fury
• Glare: to look at somebody/something in an angry way. E.g. He didn't shout, he just glared at me silently.I looked at her and she glared furiously back.
• Outburst: a sudden strong expression of an emotion. E.g. An outburst of anger. She was alarmed by his violent outburst.
• Foam at the mouth: to be extraordinarily angry. E.g. She was almost foaming at the mouth when she heard about the cost of the car repairs. Walter was foaming at the mouth with rage. 
• Choreograph something: /ˈkɒriəɡrɑːf/ to design and arrange the steps and movements for dancers in a ballet or a show: (figurative) There was some carefully choreographed flag-waving as the President drove by. A set of rules that choreographs our every waking moment.
• Waking: used to describe time when you are awake. E.g. She spends all her waking hours caring for her mother. He thought of her every waking moment. 
• Intrude: to go or be somewhere where you are not wanted or are not supposed to be. E.g. I'm sorry to intrude, but I need to talk to someone. Intrude into/on/upon somebody/something: E.g. Legislation to stop newspapers from intruding on people's private lives.  
• Pound: to beat quickly and loudly. E.g. Her heart was pounding with excitement. The blood was pounding (= making a beating noise) in his ears. Her head began to pound. A pounding headache. A pounding heart.
• Avert: /əˈvɜːt/ 1. Avert something: to prevent something bad or dangerous from happening. E.g. A disaster was narrowly averted. He did his best to avert suspicion. Talks are taking place in an attempt to avert a strike. 2. Avert your eyes/gaze/face (from something): to turn your eyes, etc. away from something that you do not want to see. Apartar. E.g. She averted her eyes from the terrible scene in front of her.
• Tap (something): if you tap your fingers, feet, etc. or they tap, you hit them gently against a table, the floor, etc, for example to the rhythm of music. E.g. He kept tapping his fingers on the table. The music set everyone's feet tapping. E.g. There are the tension and anxiety-reduction responses, hair-pulling, foot-tapping, getting red in the face and ultimately leaving the scene.
• Defy: /dɪˈfaɪ / Defy belief, explanation, description, etc: to be impossible or almost impossible to believe, explain, describe, etc. E.g. A political move that defies explanation. The beauty of the scene defies description. Some words defy translation.
• Succumb: /səˈkʌm/ to not be able to fight an attack, an illness, a temptation, etc. E.g. The town succumbed after a short siege. They were all offered bribes and some of them succumbed. Succumb to something: His career was cut short when he succumbed to cancer. He finally succumbed to Lucy's charms and agreed to her request. She succumbed to the temptation of another drink. Everyone succumbs to feelings of anger at one time or another.