Good vocabulary words for composition - Feelings/Emotions

Good vocabulary words are crucial to score better for your primary school composition. How can we improve our scores? In this blog, we will cover vocabulary related to emotions also known as emotional adjectives.

There are only four basic emotions to focus on:

• Mad

• Sad

• Glad

• Scared

We tell our students to remember the above 4 basic human emotions. It rhymes and it is easy for them to remember. Did you know there are plenty of adjectives to substitute for the basic emotions above? Today, we are going to share with you our cheat sheet. Print this out and memorise it before you go for your next composition examination.

Mad	Sad	Glad	Scared
furious	depressed	merry	terror-stricken
​wrathful	feeling blue	exuberant	anxious
incensed	gloomy	elated	fearful
annoyed	bleak	overjoyed	petrified
to see red	sorrowful	on cloud nine	butterflies in my stomach
peeved	down in the dumps	as happy as a lark	have cold feet
fed up	defeated	pleased	heart in my mouth
cross	unhappy	euphoric	chill down my spine
irritated	upset	cheerful	terrified

A good exercise to do would be to find the meanings of the above words. In our classes, we teach both the vocabulary and the meanings. There are different degrees of happiness or sadness. By exposing students to a wide vocabulary list, we give them options to express themselves better in compositions. This gives them an edge and also the ability to score better in language.

For example, both depressed and disappointed belong to the same category of sadness. However, they both mean a different kind of sadness. Disappointment happens when your expectations are not met. Depression happens when there is long term sadness due to loss. A man who lost his wife would