Adv Voc 13

Strong desires Pregnant women crave / have a craving for strange things like tuna and banana pizza! [want very strongly]

Young children often seem to thirst / have a thirst for knowledge. [feel very strongly that you want]

Sometimes my cousin just yearns to be on her own with no family responsibilities. [if you yearn to do / yearn for / have a yearning for something, it means that you want something that you do not have and, often, can never have]

An Olympic gold medal is probably the most coveted sporting prize. [to covet something means to want to possess it very much]

Lottie tried to defuse the tension by changing the subject. [make a dangerous or tense situation calmer

Tim was very angry with his daughter and it took her a long time to placate him. [stop someone feeling angry]

Although appeasing the enemy postponed the war for another year, it did not ultimately prevent it from happening. [end a disagreement by giving the other side an advantage that they are demanding (normally used in a disapproving way); formal]

ecstatic: feeling great pleasure and happiness, usually because of a success. Sarah was ecstatic after her great exam results.

bliss: perfect happiness (often collocates with utter and sheer; adjective = blissful; the adverb blissfully often collocates with happy, ignorant and unaware). They are blissfully happy even though they’re poor.

jubilant: expressing great happiness, especially at a victory; formal There were jubilant shouts as the results of the referendum were announced. 

My daughter’s just had a baby girl. We’re thrilled to bits at the news. 

I feel on top of the world. It’s great to have a job again.

I’ve been floating/walking on air ever since I heard I got into drama school.