Personality Traits, Conflicts, Sleep, and Idioms: Key Terms

Posted on Jan 21, 2025 in English

Personality Traits and Personal Conflicts

Demanding (adj): Said of a person that is calling for attention.
Insecure (adj): A person without self-confidence. Subject to fears and doubts.
Outgoing (adj): Cheerful, sociable.
Rebellious (adj): Someone that goes against what they are told.
Respectful (adj): A person who is nice and polite.
Self-centered (adj): A person that thinks just of themself; egocentric.
Traditional (adj): A person that has old-fashioned manners. A person that follows what has been established for a long time.
Unconventional (adj): Different from what is usual.

Get on one’s nerves (vb): To annoy someone a lot.
Have a word with sb (vb): To have a serious talk with someone.
Have one’s eye on sb (vb): Look out for someone.
Let sb be (vb): Stop annoying someone; allow somebody to do what they want.
Make someone’s life miserable (vb): To bring unhappiness to someone.
Make things worse (vb): Aggravate a situation.
Say something one might regret (vb): To express an inappropriate idea in a context.
Turn the tables on someone (vb): To change the situation in someone’s favor. To make somebody experience the same as you’re going through.

Accomplish (vb): To achieve a goal.
Burden (n): Something that weights, something difficult to bear (either physically or emotionally).
Compelling (adj): Something appealing (+)/ convincing (+)/ forceful (-).
Diminish (vb): Become less.
Era (n): A period of time that is marked by some special characteristics.
Genetic (adj): Pertaining to genes; it is an heir from your parents in biological terms.
Intense (adj): Strong feeling.
Pester (vb): To annoy/ to bother.
Regardless (of) (prep): To not take something in consideration/ in spite of.
Sibling (n): Referred to brother or sister.

Nod off (vb): Fall asleep.
Doze off (vb): Fall asleep.
Fall asleep (vb): Go to sleep.
Lie in (vb): Stay in bed.
Snore (loudly) (vb): Make loud guttural noises in your sleep.
Take a nap (vb): Sleep for a short period of time in the daytime.
Oversleep (vb): Sleep more than you should.
Skip sleep (vb): Not sleep.
Get enough sleep (vb): Sleep the appropriate hours.
Give/Get a head start (vb): Give someone an advantage over you.
Trigger (vb): Cause.
Fast asleep (adj): In the deepest of dreams.
Disquieting (adj): Not silent.
Grumpy (adj): Easily annoyed and complaining.
Prone to (adj): Be prone to something/do something.
Under the covers (expr): In bed, under the bed covers.
A light sleeper (n): Someone who sleeps in the stated way.
Sleep deprivation (n): You’re not getting enough sleep.
Slurred speech (n): Is a symptom characterized by poor pronunciation of words.

Let sb sleep on it: To postpone a decision until the next day.
Lose sleep over sth: To worry about something so much that you can’t sleep.
Get one’s beauty sleep: To get sleep that helps one to look healthy.
Never dream of: Say that something is better than anything you could imagine.
Beyond one’s wildest dreams: Much more successful than one ever thought possible.
A dream job: It’s about earning a fat paycheck; offers great benefits.
A dream come true: Something you have wanted very much for a long time that has now happened.
In your dreams: Something desired is never likely to happen.

One’s first go at sth (expr): To try to get something.
By heart (expr): To learn something in such a way that you can say it from memory.
A huge success (n): A great achievement.
Run-of-the-mill (adj): Typical.
Stuck (adj): When something can’t be moved.
Frantically (adv): In an excited manner.
Swerve off (vb): To move off the original route.
Soothing (adj): Relaxing.
Hit it off (expr): To get on really well with someone when you meet them for the first time.