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Relating to behaviour

coping

adjective

coping behaviour or skills are ways that people have of dealing with difficult situations

inborn

adjective

something that is inborn has existed in you since you were born

inbred

adjective

existing from birth or as a result of manners that someone has learned from an early age

behavioral

the American spelling of behavioural

-mannered

suffix

used with some adjectives and adverbs to make adjectives describing the type of manners that someone has

behavioural

adjective

relating to the way someone behaves

disposed

adjective

likely to behave or think in a particular way

incontinent

adjective

incontinent behaviour or emotion is not controlled well

behaviourally

adverb

incontinence

noun

vocal fry

a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence

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dray

a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer

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conflict mineral

a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons

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