Before you start the test, please read the short descriptions of the 172 emotions you may encounter.
| Abused: | To feel treated very badly by someone, often for a long time; to be badly hurt emotionally or physically. |
| Accepted: | To feel welcomed and included. |
| Admiring: | Demonstrating respect for, or approval of, something or someone. |
| Adoring: | Having great affection and warmth toward someone or something. |
| Affinity: | Feeling of closeness and similarity to someone; having an understanding of a person. |
| Agonising: | Severely worrying about and thinking through something, in great mental anguish. |
| Alert: | To feel watchful and attentive. |
| Anguished: | To be experiencing great mental pain. |
| Appalled: | To feel deeply shocked, alarmed. |
| Appealing (Asking for): | Eagerly requesting something. |
| Aroused (Stimulated): | To feel an excited response to something, to be stirred by something. |
| Arrogant: | To be overly self-important, showing too much pride. |
| Assertive: | To show a very confident personality, to be self-assured. |
| Awed: | To feel a mixture of respect, wonder and dread. |
| Baffled: | To feel frustrated because something is too difficult to understand. |
| Battered: | To be subjected to repeated attacks. |
| Belittled: | To be intentionally made to feel small and unimportant. |
| Belittling: | To intentionally make others feel small and unimportant. |
| Bemused: | To be confused, puzzled and unable to think about something properly. |
| Bewildered: | To feel confused, puzzled. |
| Bitter: | To feel hurt, resentful, to feel ill will towards others. |
| Blank: | To show no feeling or interest, to have no thoughts about a particular thing, to be unable to remember. |
| Brazen: | To behave in a disrespectful and reckless manner. |
| Brooding: | To think something over continuously and unhappily. |
| Calculating (scheming): | Coldly aiming to achieve something, plotting. |
| Carefree: | To feel no responsibilities or worries. |
| Casual: | To demonstrate little concern or care for someone or something. |
| Cautious: | To feel careful or wary, thinking of the possible outcome or result and preparing for the worst. |
| Cherishing: | To have a very strong affection for someone or something. |
| Cocky: | To be self-confident or proud, to be a little arrogant. |
| Committed: | To be decided on or pledged to someone or to doing something. |
| Compelled: | To feel forced or pressurised into doing something. |
| Complacent: | To be satisfied with things as they are, not to bother to improve or change things. |
| Composed: | To have emotions under control, to be calm and prepared to deal with anything. |
| Comprehending: | Understanding, grasping, taking in the meaning of something. |
| Concealing: | Hiding something from others. |
| Condemned: | Receiving the very strong disapproval of others. |
| Condemning: | Strongly disapproving of someone or something, judging others blameworthy of wrongdoing. |
| Condescending: | To treat othes in a manner implying you are betteror know more than they do. |
| Confronted: | To be approached in a critical or threatening way. |
| Congratulatory: | To show happiness for another person's success or achievement. |
| Contemptuous: | To feelthat someone is undeserving of respect and is worthless. |
| Contradictory: | To take an opposite position or present an opposing opinion to someone else's. |
| Contrary: | To do the opposite of what is wanted or promised. |
| Convinced: | Being persuaded by an argument. |
| Corrected: | To be made to recognise one's errors. |
| Cynical: | To distrust the motivation of others. |
| Daunted: | To be discouraged by something or someone, to become fearful, lose courage. |
| Defiant: | To resist boldly. |
| Deflated: | To feel reduced in self-esteem. |
| Demoralised: | To have lost all self-confidence. |
| Deserted: | To feel abandoned , left alone. |
| Despairing: | To lose all hope. |
| Despising: | Feeling a very strong dislike for something or someone, feeling that something or someone is worthless. |
| Determined: | To pursue vigorously something one has decided on. |
| Devastated: | To be overwhelmingly shocked or broken. |
| Devoted: | To feel a deep attachment to someone or something. |
| Discomforted: | To be troubled by something or someone, to be worried or embarrassed. |
| Discontented: | To feel unhappy about something. |
| Discouraging: | Suggesting that someone is inadequate to perform a task, making someone lose confidence. |
| Disillusioned: | To find that reality does not meet up to expectations. |
| Disinclined: | To feel rather unwilling to do something. |
| Dismayed: | To be alarmed by something or someone. |
| Disorientated: | To be lost, not knowing where you are. |
| Distaste: | To dislike something or someone, to finding something unappealing and offensive. |
| Distracted: | Not concentrating, having your thoughts easily drawn to other things. |
| Distraught: | To be very upset and agitated. |
| Disturbed: | To be troubled or upset. |
| Downtrodden: | To be without the capacity to fight against something or someone that's oppressing you. |
| Empathic: | To be able tounderstand others' emotions or state of being. |
| Empty: | To feel unhappy, drained, having no meaning in your life. |
| Enticed: | To feel attracted to something. |
| Exasperated: | To feel very annoyed, to lose patience with someone or something. |
| Exhilarated: | To feel excited, stirred up, stimulated in a refreshing way. |
| Exonerated: | To feel released from blame. |
| Expectant: | To anticipate, usually something good. |
| Exploited: | To feel used by someone to his/her advantage, for his/her gain. |
| Fantasising: | Imagining something that one would like to happen. |
| Flattered: | To feel pleased by (often insincere)complimentary speech or actions. |
| Flattering: | Saying nice things about someone, often insincerely. |
| Flirtatious: | To behave in a way which makes someone think you are sexually or romantically attracted to him/her, in a silly or playful way. |
| Flustered: | To feel rather agitated or confused, often by being made to hurry or having too many things to do. |
| Gleeful (delight): | To feel so joyous and happy that you laugh. |
| Grave: | To be serious in manner and thought. |
| Grieving: | Being extremely sad because of loss. |
| Guarded: | To be cautious, to restrain oneself from expressing emotions, opinions or information. |
| Hesitant: | To be slow to take action or make a particular judgement, to feel uncertain or lacking confidence about something. |
| Hostile: | To feel aggressive and unfriendly towards others. |
| Humble: | To feel modest, to feel one is not special but ordinary. |
| Humiliated: | To have one's self-respect and pride severely lowered, to be made to feel stupid or silly. |
| Hysterical (over-excited): | To be unable to control one's excitement. |
| Inadequate: | To feel one is not good enough, to be unable to cope with something or a situation, to lack confidence. |
| Inattentive: | Not focusing your attention properly on something or someone, being careless, lacking concentration. |
| Indifferent: | To have no strong feelings for or against something or someone. |
| Indignant: | To express anger at having been unfairly treated by others. |
| Infuriated: | To feel extremely angry, annoyed. |
| Insecure: | To feel lacking in self-confidence, to be unsure of oneself. |
| Insincere: | Not to mean what one says, to be dishonest. |
| Inspired: | To feel very enthusiastic or enlightened about something. |
| Intimate: | To have a deep and personal relationship or experience with someone. |
| Intimidated: | Feeling threatened and scared by someone, something or a particular situation, frightened into submission. |
| Invigorated: | To feel enlivened as if your energy has been replenished. |
| Jaded: | To feel tired or bored because one has had too much of something. |
| Jubilant: | To express great happiness. |
| Judgmental: | To have a critical opinion of someone or the way he/she lives his/her life. |
| Knowing: | Expressing an awareness and understanding. |
| Listless: | To feel unwilling to make any effort, to lack energy. |
| Lured: | To be tempted by the promise of something appealing and attractive. |
| Luring: | Tempting, enticing others to do something or go somewhere. |
| Miffed: | To feel slightly annoyed, upset. |
| Modest: | To have a humble opinion of oneself and one's abilities. |
| Mortified: | To feel humiliated, extremely embarrassed. |
| Mystified: | To feel bewildered or puzzled by something. |
| Needled: | To feel angered by a teasing or provoking remark. |
| Needy: | To feel one requires attention, affection and emotional input from others. |
| Neglected: | To feel one is not being given enough attention, affection or emotional input. |
| Nostalgic: | To feel a sentimental longing and remembrance of things from the past. |
| Offended: | To have ones feelings upset by the remarks or actions of someone else. |
| Oppressive: | To impose one's will on someone, to overpower, to deny him/her choices. |
| Overcome: | To feel a powerful mix of happy emotions because of others kindness or something good that has happened. |
| Overwrought: | To feel excessively upset or tense to the point of agitation. |
| Passionate: | To feel strong emotions about something or someone. |
| Passive: | To endure something, to show no active interest. |
| Patronised: | To feel that someone has deliberately treated you in an inferior manner. |
| Pestered: | To feel annoyed and harassed particularly about trivial matters and sometimes because of numerous requests from people. |
| Pining: | Feeling openly unhappy because of the absence of someone or something; longing for something or someone when they are not present. |
| Pitiless: | To show no mercy or sympathy towards others. |
| Pitying: | Having sympathy towards someone else for their misfortune or sad situation. |
| Provoked: | To feel made to act or reply in an angry or distressed manner because of the actions or words of someone else. |
| Reassured: | To have one's worries or fears taken away by the compassion of someone else. |
| Refreshed: | To feel one's energy levels are replenished and one is ready to start or continue once again. |
| Rejecting: | To refuse someone or something, to openly disagree with someone or something. |
| Reluctant: | To feel unwilling to help with something and therefore hesitant to carry out an action. |
| Remote: | To feel deliberately disconnected from a situation; to have no interest in what is going on. |
| Resentful: | Feeling annoyed about something or being ill-used. |
| Resigned: | To feel reluctant to do something, but carry it out without complaint, to reluctantly accept a situation. |
| Restless: | To feel unable to stay still or remain in one place. |
| Revulsion: | To feel great horror or disgust towards something. |
| Ruffled: | To feel that someone has interrupted one's concentration or calm state. |
| Sadistic: | To feel satisfaction from causing pain or humiliation to others. |
| Sarcastic: | To mock others by making remarks which may mean the opposite of what they seem to say. |
| Scandalised: | To feel shocked or surprised by someone else's improper behaviour. |
| Scorned: | To feel dismissed by someone or looked upon with contempt. |
| Seduced: | To feel attracted towards another person romantically, or be tempted by something they suggest. |
| Seductive: | To feel that one's presence causes sexual desire in someone else. |
| Self-conscious: | To be feel very aware of what other people think about what you do, say or look like. |
| Sentimental: | To think of things in an emotional rather than rational manner. |
| Smug: | To feel excessively happy with oneself in a conceited manner. |
| Sociable: | To enjoy being in other people's company and talking and listening to them. |
| So-so: | To feel neither particularly good or bad, or positive or negative. |
| Spellbound: | To have your attention held and to feel entranced. |
| Spirited: | To have energy and courage to do things in a determined way. |
| Stern: | To have a harsh or severe attitude; to be firm in dealings with others. |
| Subdued: | To feel slightly sad and have a lack of excitement or interest. |
| Subservient: | To be obedient and submissive. |
| Tense: | To feel nervous and be unable to relax, often in anticipation of something happening. |
| Terrorised: | To feel very fearful and frightened because of the actions of someone else. |
| Tortured: | To feel immense physical or mental pain because of the direct actions of someone else. |
| Triumphant: | To feel extremely happy and pleased at having achieved something. |
| Turmoil: | To feel very confused and troubled , in a state of great worry and indecision. |
| Unapproachable: | To behave in a manner which discourages conversation; to be intimidating. |
| Unconcerned: | To be at ease or unworried. |
| Uneasy: | To feel worried or anxious about something, possibly causing restlessness. |
| Unenthusiastic: | To feel a lack of excitement about something. |
| Unfocused: | To be unable to concentrate; to be easily distracted. |
| Unreceptive: | To be unwilling to listen or respond to someone else. |
| Vacant: | To appear lacking in thought or knowledge. |
| Vague: | To be unclear or inexpressive. |
| Vibrant: | To be lively and energetic in an enthusiastic manner. |
| Vigilant: | To be extremely observant and careful. |
| Vindictive: | To want to gain revenge in a hurtful or spiteful way. |
| Vulnerable: | To feel unprotected and open to the possibility of mental or physical harm. |
