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Vocabulary: anger - English lesson

Anger, (one of the 7 Capital Sins!) is an intense emotional state involving a strong response to a perceived provocation, frustration, hurt or threat. It has physical or psychological effects. It can (and must!) be controlled. It's a moment of crisis. It triggers a "fight" or "flight" response. We face it more and more often in our daily lives... 😥

ANGER: a strong feeling of displeasure or rage; wrath.

An outburst of anger...

To be angry with somebody at something

To be cross with

Cross/ crossly/ angrily

An outburst of anger/ a fit of anger

Angrily/ in anger

To make somebody angry/ to anger somebody

To get angry/ to lose one's temper

To throw a tantrum

Peeved with/ sore with

Irascible/ irascibility

To throw a tantrum...

- To take one's anger out on somebody/ to vent one's anger on somebody

- To be mad at somebody: to be very angry with somebody

- To get mad at: to become greatly irritated, enraged.

She's incensed...

Fury

Furious/ incensed/ infuriated

To infuriate somebody/ to incense somebody

To madden somebody/ to drive somebody mad

Infuriating/ maddening

Rage/ To fly into a rage

To enrage somebody

Overwrought

Irate/ wrathful (formal)

She's overwrought.

- To fly into a rage

- To be in a rage/ to fume (with rage)

- To be in a blind rage/ in a towering rage

- To be wild at somebody/ with somebody

- To have a fit of rage

- To be beside oneself with rage

- To blow one's top: (to explode)

- To fly off the handle

- It makes my blood boil

(If you want to go further... go and work on another lesson: aggressiveness and hostility: test

Let's hope this lesson won't have "incensed" you... Stay calm to face the test: it shouldn't be too upsetting!

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1. It really when I heard that the two thugs had attacked these destitute elderly people.

2. Mum was the boys for breaking her precious vase.

3. The boss had a when he didn’t get the report on time for his meeting.

4. 'It would be very unfair to the students who had done nothing wrong.'

5. Terry was after his neighbour insulted him.

6. The kid’s stubbornness his parents who couldn’t understand his attitude.

7. After a terrible day, the woman was too to listen to your advice.

8. I had never seen him so angry! He was with exasperation.

9. The old man is very irritable and at every remark.

10. When Sandy told her father what she had done, he was .

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