Dictionary Lesson 300107

Based on The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, the definitions of the following words are as follows:

Anger: A strong feeling of wanting to harm, hurt or criticize someone because they have done something unfair, cruel, offensive etc.

Aggression: Angry or threatening behaviour or feelings that often result in fighting

Pain: The feeling you have when part of your body hurts (DUH!)

Sorrow: A feeling of great sadness, usually because someone has died or because something terrible has happened

Remorse: A strong feeling of being sorry that you have done something very bad

Regret: Sadness that you feel about something because you wish it had not happened or that you had not done it

Stupidity: Behaviour or actions that show a lack of good sense or judgement

Mature: A child or young person who is mature behaves in a sensible and reasonable way/to become or behave sensibly like an adult

Redeem: To make something less bad/To do something that will improve what other people think of you, after you have behaved badly or failed

Love: To have a strong feeling of caring for and liking soemone, combined with sexual attraction

Devotion: Great love or loyalty/ The act of spending alot of time and energy on something

Tolerance: Willingness to allow people to do, say or believe what they want without criticizing them

Relationship: The way in which two people or two groups behave towards each other/The way in which two or more things are connected and affect each other/A situation in which two people spend time together or live together, and have romantic or sexual feelngs for each other

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It's fascinating how the dictionary can teach one so much in so little time. Sometimes when we get too caught up with the daily hassles of life, we forget or blur the definitions of certain simple words of life. Everyone should just keep a little dictionary at home or at work as reading material. A lot of times the answers to some of life's most perplexing questions can be found in that mess of words.