Vocabulary work

FEELING (n) EMOTION (n) PASSION (n) SENTIMENT (n)

FEELING refers to any of subjunctive reactions, pleasurable or unpleasurable, that one may have to a situation and usually connotes = denotes an absence of reasoning, eg. I can't trust my feelings.

EMOTION implies a strong feeling with physical as well as mental manifestations. It is difficult to control, eg. Her breast heaved with emotion.

PASSION refers to a strong, deeply felt, overpowering emotion, connoting especially sexual love and intense anger, a strong belief in an idea or principle, eg. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

SENTIMENT applies to a feeling, often a tender one, accompanied by some thought or reasoning, eg. She disliked him. And he returned the sentiment.

PASSIONATE (adj) ARDENT (adf) FERVENT (adf) IMPASSIONED (adj)

PASSIONATE means having or ruled by a violent emotion (with little thought) of impetuous пылкий, бурный kind; especially about what is right or wrong; used about a very strong romantic or sexual feelings. It characterizes people, as well as their words, glances, etc., eg. a passionate lover; a passionate defender of liberty; a. passionate rage; a. passionate argument; a passionate loyalty.

ARDENT (a formal word) suggests a fiery пылкий or glowing = fiery eagerness, devotion, a keen interest; a feeling about something or believing in something very strongly and sincerely. It usually characterizes people's behaviour, eg. ardent worker for the party; an ardent pursuit of knowledge; an ardent admirer; an ardent supporter.

FERVENT means admiring, or believing in something extremely strongly and sincerely; enthusiastic about something. It differs from passionate and ardent in often suggesting a deep but inexplosive feeling that is not necessarily displayed, eg. a fervent prayer; (a) fervent devotion; a fervent hope; a fervent desire.

IMPASSIONED (used in journalism and in written English) means animated with passion and suggests an expression of emotion that is deeply and sincerely felt, eg. an impassioned speaker; an impassioned plea for tolerance; impassioned glances; impassioned lines of poetry; impassioned oratory.

Do the following exercises

1. Feeling, emotion, passion, or sentiment?

KEY

1. Feeling, emotion, passion, or sentiment?

1. What feeling, emotion cannot music raise and quell подавлять, успокаивать?

2. The utter death of every tender ___ in his wife, as brought home to him by this mute and undesigned evidence of her sale of his portrait and gift, was the conclusive little stroke required to demolish разрушать all sentiment in him.

3. The feelings, emotions in him were so violent and so mixed that he dared not move — resentment злоба, негодование, despair, and yet a strange yearning for the comfort of her hand on his forehead.

4. By the time you say you're his,

Shivering and sighing

And he vows his passion is

`Infinite бесконечный, undying -

Lady make a note of this:

One of you is lying.

5. A classic lecture, rich in , emotion

With scraps of thunderous epic lilted петь живо, весело out

By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies

And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, -

That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

6. His second marriage had turned out a cool affair.... He had known but one real passion in his life — for that first wife of his — Irene.

7. His father's mask had been forced awry [e`rai] искаженный by the feeling of the meeting, so that the boy suddenly realized how much he must have felt their absence.

8. John worshipped his mother; and knew nothing of the tragedies, the inexorable неумолимый necessities of life, nothing of the prisoned grief in an unhappy marriage — nothing of jealousy or passion — knew nothing at all, as yet!

9. The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion, sentiment.

10. The great secret of Stendhal, his great shrewdness, consisted in writing at once... thought charged with feeling, emotion, passion, or sentiment.

11. In her first passion woman loves her lover,

In all the others all she loves is love.