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ADJECTIVES abrupt absolute accidental active actual adamant additional affectionate angry annual anxious apparent appreciative apprehensive

appropriate approving approximate apt ardent arduous arguable attentive audible awkward bad beautiful bitter boastful bold brave brief bright brutal busy calm careful careless casual cautious certain cheap cheerful clean clear clever close comfortable complete conclusive conscious

ADVERBS abruptly absolutely accidentally actively actually adamantly additionally affectionately angrily annually anxiously apparently appreciatively apprehensively appropriately approvingly approximately aptly ardently arduously arguably attentively audibly awkwardly badly beautifully bitterly boastfully boldly bravely briefly brightly brutally busily calmly carefully carelessly casually cautiously certainly cheaply cheerfully cleanly clearly cleverly closely comfortably completely conclusively consciously

ADJECTIVES lawful lazy light lone loud lucky mad main mannish magic mental merciful mere merry momentary monthly narrow natural near neat nebulous necessary needless nervous new nice nightly noisy obedient occasional open oppressive optimistic oral outward painful partial particular passionate patent patient peaceful perfect permanent personal pessimistic physical pious playful pleasant

ADVERBS lawfully lazily lightly lonely loudly luckily madly mainly mannishly magically mentally mercifully merely merrily momentarily monthly narrowly naturally nearly neatly nebulously necessarily needlessly nervously newly nicely nightly noisily obediently occasionally openly oppressively optimistically orally outwardly painfully partially particularly passionately patently patiently peacefully perfectly permanently personally pessimistically physically piously playfully pleasantly

constant continual continuous copious correct courteous crooked cruel cunning curious dangerous daring dear deep definite deliberate delightful dim dirty double dull eager easy economic efficient enjoyable enormous entire essential eternal ethical ethnic etymological euphemistic evasive even eventual evident exorbitant extreme faithful fastidious fatal fearful fierce final financial first foolish forgetful fortunate

constantly continually continuously copiously correctly courteously crookedly cruelly cunningly curiously dangerously daringly dearly deeply definitely deliberately delightfully dimly dirtily doubly dully eagerly easily economically efficiently enjoyably enormously entirely essentially eternally ethically ethnically etymologically euphemistically evasively evenly eventually evidently exorbitantly extremely faithfully fastidiously fatally fearfully fiercely finally financially firstly foolishly forgetfully fortunately

polite poor popular possible posthumous pretty previous primary private probable problematic promiscuous proper proud punctual pure puritanical purposeless quick quiet rapid rare rational ready real recent regular ridiculous rough rude sad safe satisfactory savage secret seeming sentimental separate serene serial serious severe shaky shameful shameless sheepish shy significant silent simple sincere

politely poorly popularly possibly posthumously prettily previously primarily privately probably problematically promiscuously properly proudly punctually purely puritanically purposelessly quickly quietly rapidly rarely rationally readily really recently regularly ridiculously roughly rudely sadly safely satisfactorily savagely secretly seemingly sentimentally separately serenely serially seriously severely shakily shamefully shamelessly sheepishly shyly significantly silently simply sincerely

free frequent friendly frightful full general generous gentle gentleman genuine glad graceful gradual grim grudging gruelling gruesome half-yearly haphazard happy hard harsh hasty hateful heavy helpful helpless high holistic honest honourable hopeful horrible hourly hungry hypothetical hysterical immaculate immediate impatient individual inescapable inestimable inevitable inexorable infallible instant instantaneous instinctive jealous joint

freely frequently friendily frightfully fully generally generously gently gentlemanly genuinely gladly gracefully gradually grimly grudgingly gruellingly gruesomely half-yearly haphazardly happily hardly harshly hastily hatefully heavily helpfully helplessly highly holistically honestly honourably hopefully horribly hourly hungrily hypothetically hysterically immaculately immediately impatiently individually inescapably inestimably inevitably inexorably infallibly instantly instantaneously instinctively jealously jointly

single-handed skilful sleepy slight slow soft sole sound special steadfast steady stealthy strange strong stupid subtle successful sudden sure surprising sweet swift tactical tactless terrible terrifying terse thankful thorough thoughtful thoughtless total tremendous tremulous true truthful unacceptable unarguable understandable undoubted unexpected untruthful unusual urbane urgent usual vast verbal veritable weary weekly

single-handedly skillfully sleepily slightly slowly softly solely soundly specially steadfastly steadily stealthily strangely strongly stupidly subtly successfully suddenly surely surprisingly sweetly swiftly tactically tactlessly terribly terrifyingly tersely thankfully thorougly thoughtfully thoughtlessly totally tremendously tremulously truly truthfully unacceptably unarguably understandably undoubtedly unexpectedly untruthfully unusually urbanely urgently usually vastly verbally veritably wearily weekly

joyful justifiable keen kind knowing knowledgeable last late

joyfully justifiably keenly kindly knowingly knowledgeably lastly lately

whole-hearted wide wild willing wise wrong yearly youthful

whole-heartedly widely wildly willingly wisely wrongly yearly youthfully

a accurate accurately accurateness -agree adj. - free from error. (antonym - inaccurate) adj.- giving pleasure to someone (antonym disagreeable) n. - a promise or contract made with someone v. - to say that one is willing amazing, amazed amazingly amazement amaze adj. - great surprise and wonder (antonym unamazing) adj. - annoying - causing slight anger or irritation adj. - annoyed - rather angry n. - the things that annoys artistic artistically art -adj. - having natural skills at drawing, painting, acting, etc. (antonym -unartistic) adj. - joined / part of (antonym - disassociate) n. - group, organization v. - to join together / to

agreeable

agreeably

agreement

annoying, annoyed

annoyingly

annoyance

annoy

associate

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association

associate

act together with or deal with somebody attractive attractively attractiveness attract adj.- pretty /pleasing / interesting (antonym unattractive)

b behaved -behaviour behave adj. - acting in a specific way. used to form compound adjectives e.g. well-behaved (antonym - misbehaved) n. - way of acting / way of treating others v. - to act in a specified way believable believably belief believe adj. - that can be believed(antonym unbelievable) n. - the feeling that something is real or true v. - to feel sure of the truth of something beneficial beneficially beneficiary benefit adj. - having a helpful or useful effect (antonym n. - being kind, friendly and helpful v. - profit / gain / future good bold boldly boldness -adj. - confident and brave (antonym cowardly)

c casual casually casualness -adj. - happening by chance / not serious

(antonym - formal) clear clearly clear adj. - free from cloud / without , error, defect or drawback (antonym unclear) adj. - enjoyable / free from pain (antonymadj. uncomfortable / antonym noun discomfort) v. - to make someone (or yourself) happy convenient conveniently convenience -adj. - easy / handy / useful (antonym inconvenient) adj. - to make money / related to business practices and activities (antonym noncommercial) adj. - able to make or produce things(antonym - uncreative) adj. - looking for faults or problems (antonym uncritical)

comfortable

comfortably

comfort

comfort

commercial

commercially

commerce

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creative

creatively

creation

create

critical

critically

criticism

criticize

d dated dateless datedness date adj. - old fashion, not modern (antonym modern) v. - to write the date / to meet a person of the opposite sex decided decidedly decision decide adj. - clear, definite (antonym - undecided)

n. - the conclusion reached / outcome / result / judgment v. - to settle an argument or dispute / to choose / to make up one's mind decisive decisively decisiveness -adj. - showing the ability to decide quickly (antonym - indecisive) adj. - done on purpose (antonym undeliberate) adj. - unusual, uncommon (antonym same) n. - a talk v. - to talk or write about something disputable disputably dispute dispute adj. - something that can be questioned or argued about (antonym indisputable) n. - argument v. - to argue / to debate distracted distractedly distraction distract adj. - unable to concentrate properly (antonym - undistracted ) n. - a noise, sound, sight, etc. which prevents concentration e ethical ethically ethic -adj. - morally correct

deliberate

deliberately

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different

differently

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discussion

discuss

(plural ethics) antonym unethical exact exactly exactness exact adj. - strictly correct (antonym - inexact) adj. - above the usual (antonym - normal, usual, common

extraordinary

extraordinarily --

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f fashionable fashionably fashion fashion adj. - trendy / stylish (antonymunfashionable) v - to make fascinated / fascinating -fascination fascinate adj. - attracted and delighted by creating interest and curiosity (antonym -uncritical) adj. - the ability to bend (antonym - inflexible) v. - to tighten, usually muscles in the human body forgivable -forgiveness forgive adj. - can be forgiven (antonym - unforgivable) v. - to stop blaming or stop resenting someone for something he or she has done fortunate fortunately fortune -adj. - lucky (antonym unfortunate) adj. - kind, affectionate (antonym - unfriendly)

flexible

flexibly

flexibility

flex

friendly

friendlily

friendliness

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h happy happily happiness -adj. - content, glad (adj. unhappy) n. - joy harmonious harmoniously harmony harmonize adj. - agreeable, friendly (antonym disharmonious) adj. - kept out of sight / unseen (antonym -visible ) adj. - make higher / intensify (antonym lowered ) adj - frank, open, truthful (antonym dishonest) adj. - ethical, fair, moral, principled (antonym dishonourable) n. - personal respect v. - to respect highly / accept or pay a debt i imaginable / imaginary imaginably imagination imagine adj. - imaginable - likely, possible (antonym unimaginable) adj. - imaginary - existing only in the mind (antonym - unimaginary) n. - the ability to create images of things that are not present v. imagine - to create a

hidden

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hide

heightened

height

heighten

honest

honestly

honesty --

honourable

honourably

honour

honour

picture in the mind important importantly importance -improve adj. - serious (antonym unimportant) adj. - can be made better (antonym - un improvable) n. - something that adds to the value of something inspirational inspirationally inspiration inspire adj. - (antonym uninspired) adj. - (antonym - un intrigued) adj - cleaver, smart (antonym - unintelligent) adj. - (antonym uninventive) adj. - easily annoyed n. - irritant - person or thing causing irritation n. - irritation annoyance, slight pain j justified justifiable justification justify adj - morally correct (antonym - unjustified) v - to show the rightness or justice of something k l legal legally legality legalize adj. - allowed by law (antonym - illegal)

improvable

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improvement

intrigued / intriguing intelligent

intriguingly

intrigue

intrigue

intelligently

intelligence

-invent

inventive

inventively

invention

irritable

irritably

irritant / irritation irritate

legible

legibly

legibility

-legitimize

adj. - easily read (antonym - illegible) adj. - lawful, regular / born in wedlock (antonym - illegitimate) adj. - generous / tolerant / unrestricted amount of something (antonym illiberal) n. - a person who has liberal ideas (usually about freedom from control) v. - to free from political or moral restrictions

legitimate

legitimately

legitimacy

liberal

liberally

liberal

liberalize

likely

likely

likelihood

like

adj. - probably (antonym - unlikely) adv, - very probable n. - probability v. - similar to / to be fond of / having some or all of the qualities or features of

logical

logically

logic

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adj. - clear, rational, reasonable (antonym illogical) n. - art or philosophy of reasoning

lucky

luckily

luck

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adj. - fortunately (antonym - unlucky)

m mature maturely maturity mature adj. - ripe like a fruit / completely developed like an adult (antonym -

immature) moral morally morality moralize adj. - right and just (antonym - immoral) v. - to talk in a selfrighteous way about what is right or wrong mortal mortally mortality -adj. - human / deadly or fatal (antonym immortal - live forever)

n noticeable noticeably notice notice adj. - attracting attention / easily seen (antonym unnoticeable) n. - a sign, advertisement or warning v. - to see something o offensive offensively offensiveness offend adj. - upsetting or annoying (antonym inoffensive) adj. common, usual, not strange (antonym unordinary)

ordinary

ordinarily

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p patient patiently patience -adj. - ability to accept delay (antonym impatient) adj. - without error or flaw (antonym imperfect) v. - to make something

perfect

perfect

perfection

perfect

without error or flaw performing -performance perform adj. - doing or acting / doing as expected (antonym unperforming) n. - act, play, feat, achievement v. - to do something / to act a part in a play polite politely politeness -adj. - having or showing good manners (antonym - impolite) adj. - something that can be done (antonym impossible) adj. - very strong / having great influence (antonym - powerless) n. - energy v. - the ability to do something preventable -prevention prevent adj. - that which can be avoided, stopped or hindered (antonym unpreventable) v. - to stop or hinder probable probably probability -adj. - likely (antonym improbable) adj. - a qualified worker who does something to a high standard (antonym unprofessional) adj. - trying or intended

possible

possibly

possibility

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powerful

powerfully

power

power

professional

professionally

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protective

protectively

protection

protect

to protect n. - defense / safety v. - to keep safe from harm, injury, hurt, etc. / guard q r rational rationally rationale / rationality rationalize adj. - reasonable, sensible (antonym (irrational) v. - justify by reasoning recommended / -recommending regular regularly recommendation recommend adj. - (antonym unrecommended) adj. - normal, usual, habitual (antonym irregular) adj. - related to the matter under discussion (antonym irrelevant) adj. dependable (antonym unreliable) adj. - pious / conscientious / holy (antonym - unreligious not religious /irreligious adj. - can be replaced (antonym irreplaceable) adj. - typical (unrepresentative)

regularity --

relevant

relevantly

relevance

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reliable

reliability

reliability rely

religious

religiously

religiousness

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replaceable

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replacement replace

representative

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representative

represent

n. - one chosen to stand for a group v. - to symbolize / to stand for respectful respectable respectability respect adj. - showing consideration or politeness (antonym disrespectful) n. - worthy of respect v. - to look up to / show consideration for responsible responsibly responsibility -adj. - legally or morally obliged (antonym irresponsible) adj. - can be changed back to its original condition (antonym irreversible) n. - the opposite romantic romantically romantic romanticize adj. - of or dealing with love / loving (antonym unromantic) n. - visionary / a sentimental person s satisfactory satisfactorily satisfaction satisfy adj. - acceptable / fair / good enough (antonym unsatisfactory) n. - pleasure / pride / sense of fulfilment v. - to please / to come up to expectations significant significantly significance signify adj. - important / meaningful (antonym -

reversible

reversibility

reverse

reverse

insignificant) v. - to be a sign of soluble -solubility solution adj. - can be dissolved in water (antonym insoluble) n. - the answer to a problem / the liquid in which something is dissolved speedy speedily speed speed adj. - quickly (antonym slowly) n. - swiftness / rate of progress v. - to move quickly successful successfully success succeed adj. - profitable / rewarding / fortunate (antonym - unsuccessful) n. - favourable outcome v. - turn out satisfactorily symbolic symbolically symbol symbolize adj. - using something as a symbol (antonym unsymbolic) n. - an image, object, etc. used to represent something v. - to be a representation of something or someone t talkative -talk / talkativeness talk adj. - (antonym untalkative) adj. - in a good style / to one's liking (antonym -

tasteful

tastefully

tastefulness

taste

distasteful) v. - to eat a small amount of something taught / teaching -teacher teach adj. - instructed (antonym - unteachable) adj. - excited (antonym unexcited )

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thrill

thrill

u v valid -validity validate adj. - genuine / good / true / accurate (antonym - invalid) adv. - lawfulness / legality / right v. - to make legally true / to make something logical or justifiable

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