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KEY ANSWERS
5.
words for describ
ing an experience
that makes you
feel excited
1. thrilling – very exciting, especially making you feel
slightly frightened in an enjoyable way.
Seeing a lion in the wild was a thrilling experience.
2. exciting – making you feel excited.
Stuart found the atmosphere of the college enormous
ly exciting.
3. exhilarating – an experience or an activity that is
exhilarating makes you feel excited, and full of ener
gy, especially because it is dangerous.
Skiing is an exhilarating sport.
4. heady – heady days/atmosphere/excitement etc
(=a formal word meaning you feel very excited, hope
ful, and full of energy.
He often wished he could relive the heady days of his
youth.
EXCITED
to make
someone feel
the feeling of
being excited
words for describ
ing an exciting
story, film, book etc
1. thrill – to make someone
fell very happy and excit
ed.
Her first sight of the Afri
can landscape thrilled her
enormously.
2. get sb excited – to make
someone excited (informal).
All this talk about the par
ty is getting me really ex
cited.
3. excite – to make some
one excited (formal) .
The doctor said you should
rest and not excite yourself.
4. give sb a thrill – if sth
gives someone a thrill, it
makes them feel happy and
excited, although it is very
simple or may seem unim
portant.
Catching small animals
used to give the boys a thrill.
1. thrilling – very exciting, espe
cially making you feel slightly
frightened in a pleasant way.
The book is another thrilling sto
ry of mystery and suspense.
2. exciting – making you feel ex
cited.
I really like Spielberg’s films –
they’re always so exciting.
3. dramatic – a dramatic story,
film etc, has a lot of exciting and
unexpected things happening in
it.
From the beginning, the story un
folds dramatically.
4.nailbiting – extremely exciting
because you do not know what is
going to happen.
The film has a nailbiting finish.
5. actionpacked – a film, book etc
that is actionpacked has a lot of
exciting action in it.
This book has an actionplot deal
ing with true life story.
1. thrill – a sudden very
strong feeling of excitement,
mixed with pleasure and
sometimes fear.
Using guns always gave me
a strange thrill.
2. excitement – the feeling
of being excited.
In the stands, the crowd was
shouting with excitement.
3. exhilaration – a feeling of
happy excitement, for exam
ple that you get from an ex
citing physical activity or
from sth you have achieved.
Nothing can compare with the
exhilaration of riding a mo
torcycling very fast.
4. hysteria – extreme excite
ment that makes people cry,
laugh, shout etc uncontrol
lably.
Some of the young girls in the
crowd were screaming with
hysteria.
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