Heel: 1. Back part of the human foot or sock.

2. Raised part under footwear.

3. To lean over one side, usually with reference to ships or boats.

Achilles’ heel: A week point in somebody.

— Pride is her Achilles’ heel.

On the heels: Following closely.

Come to heel: Get ready to be disciplined or controlled.

To cool one’s heels: To be kept waiting.

— Let her cool her heels for a while; she must learn to be patient.

Dig one’s heels in: To be stubborn.

Under the heel of somebody: Dominated and controlled by somebody.

Head over heels: Completely.

To take to one’s heels: To run away.

Turn on one’s heels: To suddenly turn around and move in the opposite direction.

What kind of personality do the following people have:

1. Mr Smith is moody, quiet and happy to be alone.

He is an — — — — — — — — —

2. Mrs Smith is social, friendly and quite fond of making and meeting friends. She is an — — — — — — — — —

3. Mr White is a combination of the above two.

He is an — — — — — — — —

4. Clare is occupied with her own thoughts, desires, opinions and needs. She is — — — — — — — — — —

5. Michael is always ready to fight. He is ruthless and unyielding in his manner and argument.

He is — — — — — — — — —

6. Leena is grave, gloomy and rarely smiles.

She is — — — — — — — — —

Achilles was the son of Peleus and Thetis, the bravest of the Greeks in the Trojan war. Thetis plunged him into the Styx ( a river), thus making his body invulnerable, except the heel by which she held him. Everyone looked upon him as a very brave man. In a war he was wounded in the heel and died. Thus the idiom‘One’s Achilles’ heel means one’s weak point.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes. — Bulwer.

1. Introvert 2. extrovert 3. ambivert 4. egocentric 5. truculent 6. saturnine.

— Illa Vij