Human nature
When a situation seemed real and organic at first, but then we find out it was organised and planned, we say it was...:
sth was staged / sth was a hoax
What's the difference between 'intense' and 'intensive'?
Intense = strength
Intensive = strength + compression in time
to be angry __ someone
AT / WITH
development
d-VE-lop-ment
The name for an instinct that comes from prehistoric times, back when it made sense, but now can be odd:
a genetic throwback
Some content (video, article, headline) that purposefully makes people angry so they engage with the content:
rage bait / rage-baiting
to stare __ someone
AT
autonomous
o-to-n-m's
A verb we use to say that a situation developed and got worse and worse or more and more intense:
sth escalated
A phrase (borrowed from French) that means a social mistake that results in an embarrassing situation:
a faux pas
to take __ a loan
OUT
comfortable
com-f-t-bl
A phrase we use when someone says something that accidentally reveals they're a terrible person or have behaved badly:
to be self-reporting
A phrase we use to say that X will happen, it's just a matter of time, or that someone will become something:
a(n) X waiting to happen
to affect __ sth
-
vehicle
vee-yee-c'l
The name for a situation that happens because people believe it will happen, and it's their own actions that really do make it happen:
a self-fulfilling prophecy
An informal adjective we use to describe sth extremely sentimental, cliche, etc.:
schmlatzy
to have an impact __ sth
ON
queue
Q