emotion and reactions

emotion and reactions

being extremely happy

• over the moon

• exultant

• ecstatic

• to rejoice

• jubilant

• bliss: perfect happiness (often collocates with

•  full of the joys of spring

Very happy

• feel on top of the world

•  full of the joys of spring 

•  thrilled to bits

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reactions

•  defuse [make a dangerous or tense situation calmer]

• placate. [stop someone feeling angry]

• conciliate [end a disagreement between two people or groups by acting in a friendly way towards both sides;

•  appeasing end a disagreement by giving the other side an advantage that they are demanding 

  (normally used in a disapproving way)

strong desires

• crave /have a craving for -want

• thirst /have a thirst for knowledge. [feel very strongly that you want

• to covet something means to  want to possess it very much

• have a yearning for something,- it means that you want something that you do not have and, often, can never have