Understanding Social Dynamics and Personality Traits

Posted on Jul 15, 2025 in Philosophy and ethics

People and Their Roles

  • Someone who likes to be alone: Loner
  • A person in control of a group, country, or situation: Leader
  • Someone involved in an activity: Participant
  • A person you dislike or oppose: Enemy
  • Someone very confident who likes being with other people: Extrovert
  • Someone near an event, but not directly involved: Bystander
  • Someone who supports you when others are against you: Ally
  • Someone quiet, shy, and prefers to be alone: Introvert
  • Someone who enjoys parties, drinks a lot, and behaves loudly and wildly: Party Animal

Key Concepts and Actions

  • Extremely interested in something: Fascinated By
  • Doing something, especially something others think is wrong: Get Up To Something
  • Talking about other people’s private lives: Gossip
  • Necessity: Need
  • The activity of talking and doing things with other people, or the way to do this: Interaction
  • Improves: Enhances
  • Knowledge about a subject, situation, etc., or sympathy: Understanding
  • Getting: Acquiring
  • Lets: Allows
  • Systems connecting people online (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook): Social Networks
  • Feeling of happiness or enjoyment: Pleasure
  • Having or using something at the same time as someone else: Share
  • Becomes stronger: Strengthens
  • Makes an existing opinion or idea stronger: Reinforces
  • Beliefs about what is morally right and wrong, and what is most important in life: Values
  • The position you have in relation to others due to your job or social standing: Status
  • The way a person acts or behaves: Behaviour
  • To express disapproval of or talk about the problems or faults of someone or something: Criticize
  • Communicating from one person to another: Spreading
  • Separating someone or something from others: Isolate
  • Harm; injure: Damage
  • Showing respect for somebody or something: Respectful
  • A feeling of friendship: Togetherness
  • Helpful or useful: Beneficial
  • Intended to harm or upset somebody: Malicious
  • Speaking badly about somebody: Bad Mouthing
  • Finish, stop: End
  • Gives her opinion to somebody about the best thing to do in a particular situation: Advises
  • Typical of a child: Childish
  • Advises somebody not to do something that could cause danger or trouble: Warns

Phrasal Verbs for Relationships

  • To end a relationship: To Split Up
  • To become friendly with somebody again after an argument: To Make Up
  • To ask somebody to go on a date: To Ask Somebody Out
  • To argue with somebody and stop being friendly: To Fall Out
  • To have a romantic relationship: To Go Out
  • To suddenly have strong romantic feelings about somebody: To Fall For

New Adjectives for Describing People

  • Having unscrupulous control or influence over a person or situation: Manipulative
  • Engaging readily with other people: Sociable
  • Fond of talking about other people’s private lives: Gossipy
  • Having or showing a confident and forceful personality: Assertive
  • Willing, eager, or able to talk: Communicative
  • Fond of chatting: Chatty

Language in Context: Psychology