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avuncular
Adjective
Meaning:
Kind and friendly towards a younger or less experienced person; kind and patient with younger people
Usage:
An avuncular manner
Everyone likes an avuncular person
The Dalai Lama is an avuncular person and so is Santa Claus
histrionic
Adjective
Meaning:
Overly theatrical or dramatic; exaggerated dramatic behaviour designed to attract attention; melodramatic
Usage:
His histrionic reaction disrupted the meeting
She has a penchant for dish throwing, door slamming and other histrionic displays of temper
penchant
Noun
Meaning:
A very strong liking; a strong preference or a tendency; a strong and continued inclination; affinity; proclivity; propensity, tendency
Usage:
If you have a penchant for pizza, you either eat it daily or wish you did
apoplectic
Adjective
Meaning:
Overcome with anger; extremely indignant; furious; enraged; livid; incensed
Usage:
He showed apoplectic rage
The coach was so apoplectic when the player missed the free throw that he threw his clipboard onto the court
In a heartbeat
Meaning:
Instantly; immediately; jiffy; nanosecond
Usage:
I’d accept a job offer from that company in a heartbeat
Be on edge
Meaning:
To be nervous or worried; tense and irritable
Usage:
Sorry for shouting- I’m a bit on the edge today
braggadocio
Noun
Meaning:
Bragging about something that is not true; vain and empty boasting; rodomontade
Usage:
He is a loudmouthed braggart who hid his cowardice with braggadocio
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