People and relationships vocabulary
verschiedene Wörter zum obengenannten Thema
verschiedene Wörter zum obengenannten Thema
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| Cartes-fiches | 108 |
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| Langue | English |
| Catégorie | Anglais |
| Niveau | École primaire |
| Crée / Actualisé | 29.12.2012 / 29.12.2012 |
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not taking care in the way you work
sloppy (informal); sloppily (adv.)
You copied out the diagram very sloppily. Please do it again.
dull in appearance or lacking style (clothes, person, especially of women)
dowdy
expressions for fat
portly: with fat stomach and chest; often used humorously about older men; a portly figure stood near the door
stout: with a quite fat, solid body; used of men and women; She's the stout woman wearing glasses, over there.
corpulent: fat (formal); she introduced me to a rahter corpulent gentleman
expressions for thin
lanky: very tall and thin, and usually moving awkwardly; A lanky teenager
scrawny: unattractively thin and bony-looking; He was too scrawny to be a football player
gangling/glangly: with long, thing arms and legs and rather awkward movements; often used of men and boys; A gangly youth approached him.
- fat around the chin
- untidy, scruffy
- the hair is neat and tidy
- dark-coloured skin
- yellowish an unhealthy-looking
- double chin
- unkempt
- never a hair out of place
- swarthy skin
- sallow
- gave a bad-tempered, angry look
- looking in an unpleasant, sexually interested way
- she just scowled at me
- he was leering at me
- she closed her hand as if to hit him
- lifted his shoulders up and down to show he didn't know or couldn't answer
- she clenched her fist
- shrugged his shoulders
acts on a sudden idea without thinking first; generally negative
adj, noun?
impetuous: He's so impetuous; I wish he would consider things first.
impetuousness
impulsive (more positive way)
the impulse
gives exaggerated expression of pleasure, praise or gratitude
effusive
she always gives you such an effusive welcome.
easily excited by things
adj., noun?
excitable
he's a very excitable child; he needs to calm down.
excitability
always selfishly promoting one's own position or interests. (informal)
pushy
she's pushy; it's typical of her to damand an interview for the new job
talk too much, especially about unimportant things
adj. , noun
garrulous
Freddie's so garrulous; it's impossible to get any work done.
garrulity
reserved or say very little (generally negative)
taciturn
I thought he was rather taciturn when I first met him. He hardly spoke.
tactiturnity
lacks confidence; has a low opinion of himself
He is such a diffident man
not immediately sociable
adj., noun
reserved
the reserve
unfriendly and not sociable
aloof
She tends to be rather aloof.
unfriendly and thinks herself better than others
My aunt can be very haughty.
does not believe others deserve respect
adj. , noun?
disdainful
my aunt can be very disdainful
the disdain
not easy to sociable with or start a conversation with
positive and negative adj?
approachable
unapproachable
think herself wonderful
adj. and noun?
conceited
Nancy is so conceited.
the conceit
prefers not to exaggerate her own qualities
adj, noun?
she is such a modest person
modesty
stubborn
obstinate / obstinacy
pig-headed / pig-headedness
always took his work very seriously
my father was a very conscientious man
lacking in moral principles, prepared to do very bad things
an unscrupulous character
being close to death
to be at death's door
to be on one's last legs
to die
to pass away
to pass on
newspaper word around death
fatalities: dead people
perished: died
slaughtered: violently killed
legal words around death
the deseased: the dead person
to bequeath: to leave something a bequest in a will
to inherit: to receive something an inheritance from someone who has died
to die intestate: without having made a will
