Food matters UNIT 8

• be in fits

  laughing very much
• blub


  to cry in a noisy way like a child

  
• bottle up emotions


  to refuse to talk about emotions that angers or worries you
• chuckle


  to laugh quietly

  
• compassion


  a strong feeling of sympathy and sadness for the suffering or bad luck of other and a wish to help them
• consideration


  the act of thinking about something carefully

  
• empathise


  to be able to understand how someone else feels

  
• gloomy

  unhappy and without hope

  
• grin and bear it


  to accept something bad without complaining
• groan


  a deep, long sound showing great pain or unhappiness
• grumpy


  easily annoyed and complaining
• have a good weep


  shed tears

  
• have a long face


  If you have a long face, you look sad
• howl


  to make a loud sound, usually to express pain, sadness, or another strong emotion
• keep a lid on sth


  to control the level of something in order to stop it increasing
• let rip


  to behave in an angry and emotional way
• lose it


  to stop being able to control your emotions and suddenly start to shout, cry or laugh
• moan


  to make a long, low sound of pain, suffering, or another strong emotion
• shaken up


  shocked and upset by an unpleasant experience
• shoot your mouth off


  to talk too much in a load and uncontrolled way
• shriek


  a short, loud, high cry, especially one produced suddenly as an expression of a powerful emotion
• smirk


  a smile that expresses satisfaction or pleasure about having done something or knowing something that is not known by someone else

  
• snigger


  to laugh at someone or something in a silly and often unkind way
• sob


  to cry noisily, taking in deep breaths
• sob your heart out


  to cry very much
• sympathise


  to understand and care about someone's problems
• wail


  to make a long, high cry, usually because of pain or sadness
• yell


  to shout something or make a loud noise, usually when you are angry, in pain or excited
• adverse conditions

  conditions that make it difficult for something to happen or exist
• close call


  a situation in which something bad, unpleasant, or dangerous almost happens, but you manage to avoid it
• close contact


  to communicate with somebody regularly
• close range


  from a very short distance
• close resemblance to


  if there is a close resemblance between two people or things, they are very similar, especially in the way they look.
• heavy casualties


  many people hurt badly or killed in an accident or war
• heavy cold


  a bad cold
• heavy fine


  a large sum of money that you have to pay as a punishment
• heavy rainfall


  large amount of rain that falls on an area in a particular period of time
• heavy reliance on


  when someone or something is strongly dependent on someone or something else
• performance enhancing


  used to describe drugs that are taken illegally by someone who plays a sport to make them better at that sport
• solid build


  A person with a solid build is a muscular, with maybe a little fat as well