DAY 2

WORKBOOK ACTIVITY:

“I believe I am suitable for this job because I am prudent.”

Meaning of the word: Wise/Far-sighted.

Clarification: “My profile included interaction with the customers, during my last industrial training. So I took an innovative approach and decided along with the other executives to wear a smiley batch. This didn’t only make the office environment pleasant for the customers, but also made it less stressful for the employees.”

It is encouraged that students use as many words as possible. They could choose to use the same list of words to describe their family members, friends, relatives, movies, role models, favorite companies, places, et al.

DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES LIST

LIST OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES DESCRIBING

APPEARANCE

LIST OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES DESCRIBING

PERSONALITY

LIST OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES DESCRIBING

FEELINGSAdorable Aggressive Afraid

Attractive Ambitious Angry

Alluring Amused Anxious

Beautiful Brave Bad

Bewildered Bright Bored

Confident Cruel Calm

Cheerful Combative Confused

Cultured Co-operative Comfortable

Clumsy Cowardly Creepy

Drab Dangerous Depressed

Students often find themselves at a loss of words when they need to introduce themselves to the interviewer. Trainers often get the query around the vocabulary enhancement. However the more important thing to remember here is, that more than the knowledge of the word it is the usage that creates the impact. The following activity is designed to bridge the gap between knowledge and usage.

Listed below you would find words that describe the characteristic traits of personality. Refer to the dictionary for the meanings of these words. For further clarification, if required, consult the trainer. Once clear with the meaning, try and associate these words with your own personality. Try and use as many words as possible. While describing your characteristic traits by the help of these words, cite an example to further clarify the meaning. For example:

Dull Diligent Disturbed

Dynamic Determined Dominating

Disillusioned Disagreeable Deceitful

Elegant Evil Envious

Fair Frank Faithful

Filthy Fearless Fine

Gentle Generous Good

Glamorous Gifted Grieving

Handsome Helpful Horrible

Homely Harmonious Happy

Hurt Hesitant Hungry

Ill-mannered Instinctive Ill

Jolly Jealous Jovial

Kind-hearted Knowledgeable Kind

Lovely Loner Lively

Magnificent Mysterious Mature

Nervous Naughty Nice

Pleasant Pleasing Proud

Perfect Placid Peaceful

Plucky Punctual Protective

Smiling Successful Sorrowful

Splendid Sedate Silly

Self-assured Sincere Sombre

Snobbish Selfish Sore

Thoughtful Talented Tired

Tense Thrifty Troubled

Timid Truculent Testy

Upset Unbiased Unwell

Vivacious Voracious Vengeful

Wonderful Witty Wicked

Worried Wise Weary

Wild Warm Wrong

Zaftig Zany Zestful

eg- What an adorable baby! eg- He was a brave knight. eg- She was in a jovial mood.

FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES THAT DESCRIBE SHAPE, SOUND,

SIZE, TIME AND QUANTITY.

LIST OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES

DESCRIBING SHAPE

LIST OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES

DESCRIBING SIZE

LIST OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES

DESCRIBING TIME

LIST OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES

DESCRIBING QUANTITYBroad Big Ancient Abundant

Crooked Colossal Annual Bountiful

Circular Great Brief Cumbersome

Distorted Gigantic Early Empty

Flat Huge Fast Extra

Hollow Large Late Few

Narrow Miniature Modern Heavy

Round Mammoth Old Myriad

Square Petite Rapid Many

Skinny Tall Swift Multiple

Steep Thin Slow Numerous

Wide Tiny Young Substantial

eg- A skinny boy eg- A miniature train eg- An ancient manuscript eg- Myriad stars

THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES LIST QUALIFY NOUNS RELATED TO SOUND, TASTE, TOUCH AND COLOR.

LIST OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES

DESCRIBING SOUND

LIST OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES

DESCRIBING TASTE

LIST OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES DESCRIBING

TOUCH

LIST OF DESCRIPTIVE ADJECTIVES DESCRIBING

COLOR

Blaring Bitter Hard Azure

Cooing Delicious Loose Aqua

Deafening Fresh Rough Blue

Loud Hot Smooth Black

Melancholic Icy Slippery Crimson

Noisy Juicy Sticky Cyan

Soft Spicy Sharp Gold

Shrill Sweet Scattered Green

Squeaking Sour Soft Magenta

Silent Salty Tender Orange

Thundering Tasty Uneven Pink

Whispering Tasteless Wet Turquoise

eg- Blaring loudspeaker eg- Delicious pastry eg- Rough surface eg- Green diamond

FORMING NOUNS

The following word list helps the students to not only enhance their word power it also helps them in identifying the source of any particular word. The range of a person’s word power depends on the knowledge that person has about the usage of those words with respect to situations, feelings, actions, emotions, relationships and descriptions.

NOUNS VERBS ADJECTIVES NOUNS

absent absenceact actionadd addition

agree agreementangry anger

arrive arrivalattend attention

bad badnessbeautiful beauty

begin beginningbehave behavior

brave braverybreathe breath

bright brightnessbroad breadth

brother brotherhoodbusy business

child childhoodchoose choice

clean cleanlinesscollect collectioncorrect correction

cruel crueltydark darknessdeep depth

describe descriptiondie death

divide divisiondo deed

draw drawingdry dryness

enjoy enjoymententer entrance

explain explanationfail failure

fat fatnessfeed food

fit fitnessfoolish foolishness

free freedomfriend friendship

give giftglad gladnessgood goodnessgreat greatness

grow growthhappy happiness

hate hatredheal health

high heighthonest honestyhungry hunger

imagine imaginationinstruct instructioninvent inventioninvite invitationjudge judgement

kind kindnessking kingdom, kingship