English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

Find adjectives on the opposite page related to these abstract nouns.
1 altruism
2 parsimony
3 diligence
4 placidity
5 industriousness
6 rebellion
7 distrust
8 terseness
9 naivety
10 unscrupulousness
The adjectives you found in the exercise above are more common in formal contexts. 
Give a synonym for each word that would be more likely to be used in informal 
situations (e.g. a friendly, informal conversation). Use a dictionary if necessary.
Over to 
you
Which adjectives from this unit could you use to describe you, your friends and your family 
members?
8.2
8.3
8.4
8.5
8.6
3 Who tends to get carried away?
4 Who is often tactless?
5 Who is shrewd?
6 Who is chauvinistic?

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English Vocabulary in Use Advanced
Describing people: appearance and 
mannerisms
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Adjectives connected with size, weight and general appearance
She introduced me to a tall, 
slender woman who looked very serious. 
[thin in an attractive way]
He was too 
scrawny to be a football player.
[unattractively thin and bony-looking]
A 
lanky teenager walked in. 
[very tall and thin, and usually moving awkwardly]
A
 gangling/gangly youth approached him.
[tall, with long, thin arms and legs and rather awkward 
movements; often used of men and boys]
Recent studies show that an increasing number of children are 
obese. 
[very fat, in an unhealthy way]
She’s the rather 
stout woman wearing glasses over there. 
[with a quite large, solid body; used of men and women]
My grandfather was a 
stocky man with big hands and broad shoulders. 
[short and with a body that is 
wide across the shoulders and chest]