Feelings and phrasal verbs

Feeling words come in shades:

• nostalgia: longing for the past; elation: great happiness;
• anguish: intense suffering; despondence: low hopelessness;
• melancholy: gentle sadness; despair: complete loss of hope;
• jubilant: joyfully celebrating; euphoric: extremely, almost dizzily happy.

Idioms from the poem: feel blue (sad), lift my spirits (cheer up).

A phrasal verb is a verb + a small word (preposition or adverb) with a new meaning: pull through = succeed in a hard situation.

**Six ways to move:**

• move out: leave your home;
• move in: start living somewhere;
• move on: start something new;
• move over: shift to make space;
• move along: go to another position to make room;
• move off: start moving, leave.

Others: put off (postpone), get over (recover), look after (take care of), break down (stop working).