🔰 Vocabulary class
🌀 Difficult relationships
1️⃣ take an instant dislike to sb phrasal verb
📖 dislike sb as soon as you meet them.
🏷 He may suddenly take a dislike to foods that he's previously enjoyed.
🏷 And to make matters worse I took an instant dislike to the wife.
2️⃣ resent /rɪˈzent/ verb [transitive]
📖 to feel angry or upset about a situation or about something that someone has done, especially because you think that it is not fair
📌 resent (somebody) doing something
🏷 I resented having to work such long hours.
📌 bitterly/deeply/strongly resent
🏷 She bitterly resented his mother’s influence over him.
3️⃣ hostile /ˈhɒstaɪl $ ˈhɑːstl, ˈhɑːstaɪl/ adjective
📖 angry and deliberately unfriendly towards someone, and ready to argue with them
📌 hostile to/towards
🏷 Southampton fans gave their former coach a hostile reception.
🏷 Several of the neighbors had become openly hostile to one another.
— hostility noun
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