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Vocabulary: aggressiveness and hostility

If you simply cast a look at the pictures in this lesson, you'll soon notice that we are dealing with negative feelings just as we did, studying ANGER in test. Let's hope you won't need such violent vocabulary too often!

unfriendly to jeer

Unfriendly	: not friendly
Spiteful/ malicious	: showing malice, malevolent, spiteful
Spitefulness/ malice	: a desire to inflict harm to others
Rancour	: hostility, spite
Grudge	: feeling of ill will or resentment
Resentment	: displeasure or anger because of a wrong.
To resent something	: feeling you're insulted or wronged
Animosity towards	: strong hostility or antagonism

FALSE FRIEND: mischievous: teasing, playfully annoying // mischievousness.

- To bear somebody a grudge for something: to resent something.

- To be resentful of something: feeling displeasure because of a wrong.

- There'll be some aggro: aggressiveness, trouble, agitation.

- To threaten somebody with something: to menace.

Resentment is a poison...

Brutal/ brutality

Aggressive/ aggressiveness

An aggression

Hostile to/ hostility

A threat/ a menace

To threaten	: to menace
To insult somebody	: to speak insultingly
To abuse somebody	: to treat in a harmful way
Abusive	: coarse language or maltreatment
A swearword/ an oath/ a curse	: a taboo insulting word or phrase
To curse somebody/ something	: to wish or evoke evil
To swear at somebody	: to use obscene or profane language
To snap at somebody To bite somebody's head off	: to become unable to control oneself
To scoff at somebody To poke fun at somebody To mock somebody	: to treat with ridicule or contempt
Mockery	: contempt or derision
Ridicule/ to ridicule	: make fun of
To jeer at somebody To gibe at somebody To sneer at somebody	: to utter mocking words
A jeer/ a gibe/ a sneer	: mocking words
An enemy/ a foe	: a hostile opponent
An opponent	: an adversary

Let's always try to keep control... It's become more and more important.

I hope the following test will keep you in good temper! Thanks for your work!

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1. No need … I can hear you loud and clear.

2. Fred his neighbours who are terribly noisy in the evenings.

3. Mark still the money his parents refused to lend him when he needed it.

4. You shouldn’t believe what you’ve heard about her. It’s nothing but gossip.

5. The customer to report to the superintendent and to complain to the customer service.

6. 'You shouldn’t use in front of the kids.If you do, they’ll repeat them.'

7. When the girl said she would become a film star her jealous friends her mockingly.

8. Bob talked to Sally in a friendly way, but she and told him 'to go to hell!'

9. 'No, he’s not an ally. He’s rather an .'

10. What Nicholas said was so stupid that his friends and left.

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