CHAPTER 3 Vocabulary Enrichment

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ADJECTIVES

The use of adjectives will make your writing more vivid and help the reader visualise what is being described. You can
make your writing more precise, specific and accurate by using the best choices of adjectives or adjectival phrases.
Look at the examples with and without adjectives or adjectival phrases.
Examples:
1 The man shouted at his children.
The angry (adjective) man shouted at his children who were rude and naughty. (adjectival phrase).
2 They were proud of the students.
They were proud of the students who won the tournament. (adjectival phrase)
3 The cookies were delicious.
The cookies were delicious with sweet raisins and chocolate chips. (adjectival phrase)

A list of useful adjectives:

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5
1 adorable 1 cheap 1 done 1 fat 1 fun
2 afraid 2 clear 2 dry 2 far 2 good
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4
5
angry
bad
beautiful
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4
5
close
cold
cool
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4
5
early
easy
elegant
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4
5
fast
fine
first
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4
5
great
handsome
happy
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6 big 6 cute 6 empty 6 fit 6 hard
7 boring 7 dangerous 7 excited 7 flat 7 hate
8 broken 8 dark 8 exciting 8 frail 8 healthy
9 busy 9 dead 9 expensive 9 free 9 heavy
10 careful 10 different 10 fake 10 full 10 high
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#6 #7 #8 #9 #10
1 hot 1 low 1 pretty 1 slim 1 tame
2 huge 2 magical 2 quick 2 slow 2 tiny
3 important 3 muddy 3 ready 3 small 3 tired
4 imported 4 near 4 real 4 soft 4 true
5 interesting 5 new 5 rich 5 special 5 ugly
6 large 6 nice 6 right 6 strange 6 warm
7 late 7 noisy 7 sad 7 strong 7 weak
8 light 8 old 8 safe 8 sure 8 wet
9 little 9 pitiful 9 same 9 surprised 9 wrong
10 long 10 poor 10 short 10 tall 10 young

Practice 1
Underline the best adjectives to describe these situations.
1 The ( elegant , adorable ) baby was sleeping soundly in the ( warm , strong ) bed.
2 It was a ( long , large ) quiet walk in the park.
3 The kitten was so frail and ( young , weak ) because it refused to drink any milk.
4 We should not spend so much money on expensive ( imported , special ) bags.
5 The beggar looked so ( hungry , short ) that I bought him some food.
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 Useful adjectives to describe:

People Character Feelings Food

adorable careful angry bitter
beautiful cowardly bored crispy
cute cruel cheerful delectable
elegant fierce cold delicious
frail friendly comfortable dry
handsome hardworking excited fresh
old intelligent exhausted juicy
poor kind happy salty
pretty lazy hot sour
rich naughty jealous spicy
slim obedient kind stale
strong patient proud sweet
tall polite sad scrumptious
weak selfish scared tasty
young talkative shy
tired

Practice 2

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Select a few adjectives to describe these people or food. You can also add any adjectives of your own. Then write a
sentence to describe them. For number 4 and 5, write your own sentences using the selected adjectives to describe
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people or food.
Example:
sailor – tall, handsome, polite, friendly
The tall and handsome sailor was so friendly and polite when he greeted us.
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1 dancer –

2 woman –

3 chicken –
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Useful adjectives to describe nouns:

House/building Things Places Day

ancient blunt cosy breezy
beautiful bulky dangerous bright
big cheap exciting fine
cosy expensive fun hazy

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 House/building Things Places Day
famous heavy historic quiet
modern large interesting rainy
old light lovely snowy
small sharp meaningful sunny
wooden smooth modern
rough peaceful
scary

Practice 3
Complete the passage below with the best adjectives from the table.
It was a (1) sunny day. The clouds were floating in the sky. Everything looked so
(2) with no sound, just the birds chirping. On top of the hill, there was an
(3) and (4) castle. The castle had an
(5) story that dates back a century.

SPELLING
Commonly Misspelled Words

Correct Incorrect S Correct Incorrect

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a lot alot beginning begining
absence absense, abcense believe beleive
accidentally accidentelly bouquet bouqueit
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accommodate accomodate business buisness, bussiness, bisnes
accommodation accomodation calendar calender
achieve acheive camouflage camoflage, camoflague
acknowledge acknowlege, aknowledge category catagory
across acros caught cauhgt, caugt
acquire aquire, adquire cemetery cemetary, cematery
advisable adviseable changeable changable
aggressive agressive chief cheif
aggression agression colleague collaegue, collegue
almost allmost committed commited, comitted
appearance appearence, apearance conscience consience
amateur amatuer, amature conscious concious, consious
annually anually, annualy consensus concensus
apparent apparant, aparent, curiosity curiocity, curiositi
apparrent, aparrent
argument arguement controversy contraversy
assassination asasinaiton, assasinaison deceive decieve

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 Correct Incorrect Correct Incorrect
awful awfull, aweful definitely definately
because becoz desperate desparate
basically basicaly delicious delecious
difference diffrence hypocrite hipocrit
dilemma dilema ignorance ignorence
disappoint dissapoint imitate immitate
disastrous disasterous immediately imediately
embarrass embarass independent independant
environment enviroment intelligence inteligence, intelligance
equipment equiptment interesting intresting
exceed excede judgement judgment
existence existance knowledge knowlege
experience experiance leisure liesure
explanation expanation liaison liason
extreme
fascinating
exstrem, x-tream, xtreme
facinating, fasinating
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lightning
libary, liberry
lightening
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fiery firey lose loose
fluorescent flourescent maintenance maintainance, maintnance
foreign foriegn marshmallow marshmellow
forty fourty millennium millenium, milennium
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friend freind miniature miniture

furthermore futhermore mischievous mischievious, mischevous,
mischevious
grateful gratefull, greatful misspell mispell, misspel
guarantee garantee, garentee, garanty necessary neccessary, necessery
guidance guidence niece neice CHAPTER 3
grammar grammer noticeable noticable
government goverment occasion occassion
happiness hapiness, happynes occasionally occasionaly, occassionally
harass harrass occurred occured
height heighth, heigth omission ommision, omision
hierarchy heirarchy outrageous outragous
honour honor parliament parliment
humorous humerous pastime passtime, pasttime
hygiene hygene, hygine, hiygeine, perceive percieve
higeine, hygeine
perseverance perseverence rhyme rime

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 Correct Incorrect Correct Incorrect
personnel personell, personel rhythm rythm, rythem
playwright playright, playwrite secretary secratary, secretery
possession posession, possesion seize sieze
potatoes potatos separate seperate
precede preceed sergeant sargent
presence presance similar similer
privilege privelege, priviledge skilful skilfull
professor professer speech speach
promise promiss successful succesful, successfull, sucessful
pronunciation pronounciation surprise suprise, surprize
protester protestor than then
publicly publically their there, they’re
quarantine quarentine, quarantin tomatoes tomatos
questionnaire questionaire, questionnair tomorrow tommorow, tommorrow
readable
really
readible
realy
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until
underate
untill
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receive recieve usable usible
receipt reciept vehicle vehical
recipe recipi vicious visious
recommend recomend, reccommend weather wether, whether
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reference referance, refrence weird wierd

relevant relevent, revelant welfare wellfare, welfair
repetition repitition whether wether
restaurant restarant, restoran writing writting, writeing

Practice 4
Read and underline the correct spelling of words.
1 We must do our part to save the ( enriroment , environment ) from being polluted.
2 This bungalow is bigger ( than , then ) the one over there.
3 My sister loves ( tomatos , tomatoes ) and cucumber.
4 Zainol’s birthday celebration will be held ( tommorow , tomorrow ) at nine o’clock.
5 I would ( recommend , reccommend ) this book to you.
6 Please can I have the ( reciept , receipt ) for the shirt I bought?
7 We loved the ( accommodation , accomodation ) on this island.
8 The ( weather , whether ) is much better in December.
9 Let’s go to that ( restorant , restaurant) across the street.
10 Don’t stop ( untill , until ) you have written 350 words.

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