a hand / a handle, grip / a paw, foreleg / a way of acting, means / (board games) a move, play

to fear; to be afraid; to be scared (mostly used with the third person)

coward, timid person

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

to shake; (of a hand or flag) to wave; (of a tail) to wag; (of a baseball bat) to swing; to move something back and forth in a circular motion

swing, wield, flourish, wave, shake

assuming the air of, acting like it (when one is not)

strengthens the prefixed adjective or adjectival noun