Vocab Booster SAT Supplement Vocabulary: Emotion Words

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  1. apathetic
    showing little or no emotion or animation
  2. apathy
    an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
  3. callous
    emotionally hardened
  4. catharsis
    purging the body to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
  5. demonstrative
    a pronoun that points out an intended referent
  6. empathy
    understanding and entering into another's feelings
  7. maudlin
    very sentimental or emotional
  8. melodramatic
    having excitement and emotional appeal
  9. nostalgia
    a longing for something past
  10. poignant
    keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
  11. reciprocate
    act, feel, or give mutually or in return
  12. unrequited
    not returned in kind
  13. visceral
    relating to or affecting the internal organs
  14. ambivalence
    mixed feelings or emotions
  15. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  16. dither
    be undecided or uncertain
  17. tentative
    hesitant or lacking confidence; unsettled in mind or opinion
  18. abashed
    feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious
  19. chagrin
    strong feelings of embarrassment
  20. humble
    marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful
  21. humility
    a lack of arrogance or false pride
  22. mortify
    cause to feel shame
  23. acrophobia
    a morbid fear of great heights
  24. chilling
    the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature
  25. consternation
    sudden shock or dismay that causes confusion
  26. cowardly
    lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted
  27. cower
    crouch or curl up
  28. craven
    lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
  29. cringe
    draw back, as with fear, pain, or embarrassment
  30. daunting
    discouraging through fear
  31. demoralize
    lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
  32. disheartening
    causing someone to lose spirit, morale, or hope
  33. discourage
    try to prevent; show opposition to
  34. dismay
    the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles
  35. distress
    a state of adversity
  36. formidable
    extremely impressive in strength or excellence
  37. flustered
    thrown into a state of agitated confusion
  38. harrowing
    causing extreme distress
  39. petrify
    change into stone
  40. phobia
    an anxiety disorder characterized by irrational fear
  41. phobic
    suffering from irrational fears
  42. prostration
    the action of lying face downward
  43. pusillanimous
    lacking in courage, strength, and resolution
  44. timorous
    shy and fearful by nature
  45. tremulous
    quivering as from weakness or fear
  46. trepidation
    a feeling of alarm or dread
  47. ardent
    characterized by intense emotion
  48. fanatical
    marked by excessive enthusiasm for a cause or idea
  49. fervent
    characterized by intense emotion
  50. vehement
    marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions
  51. zeal
    a feeling of strong eagerness
  52. zealot
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
Created on Fri Jan 31 16:48:42 EST 2020 (updated Thu Apr 02 19:59:10 EDT 2020)

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