Coping With Emotional Distress Vocabulary

noun a person, place, thing, or idea

verb a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence

adjective a word or phrase naming an attribute added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it

pronoun a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse

preposition a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause

article a word that is used with a noun to specify grammatical definiteness of the noun

• After the earthquake, the building was left in such a state that it could be a quivering wreck at any moment.
• When she found out she had failed the exam, she was a quivering wreck.
• When he saw the ghost in the abandoned house, he was a quivering wreck.
• The stress of the situation made her feel like she was about to be a quivering wreck.