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Vocabulary: fear and terror

Among the most universal emotions, "fear" strikes everyone to varying degrees, and more or less often. 

We have already studied simple and ordinary "fear" in  test.

In this lesson, we're going a lot further and will study stronger emotions, going as far as "terror"!  

Both Tim and Teddy are frightened!                     So scary... 

- To be in fear of one's life/ to fear for one's life

- To be frightened into doing sth

- To have a fit of nerves (before an exam)

- To have stage fright: (in front of an audience)

- To be scared stiff/ scared to death/ to be scared out of his wits: to be very frightened

- To have the jitters/ to be jittery

- To scare the life out of sb/ to scare the living daylights out of sb

- To be appalled at sth

- To strike terror in sb

- To have a horror of sth/ of doing sth

- To (get into a) panic

- To strike fear/ terror into somebody/ into somebody's heart

                                                       He's panic-stricken... 

I do hope you won't be too scared and shaken by this "terrible" vocabulary... I'm sure you won't! 

The FORCE is with You, anyway!  

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