The words below are used to describe people of different characteristics.

Be
careful, they are used in informal conversations!!
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2)
3)
4)

A pain in the neck : An annoying or boring person

A lazybones :
A person who is very lazy
A slowcoach:
A person who moves,acts, works or thinks slowly
A trouble-maker: A person who causes difficulties between people and
upsets them
5) A skinflint: A greedy person
6) A Know-all: An irritating person who knows everything
7) A chatterbox:
A talkative person
8) A scatterbrain:
A person who cannot concentrate on one thing for
very long and is forgetful
9) A big head: A person who has a very high opinion of himself
10)
A nosey parker: An over-inquisitive person

PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES: NEGATIVE PREFIXES (KEY)

a.Decide if some of these personal adjectives apply more to men or women.
Ambitious bossy communicative considerate faithful honest imaginati
ve jealous logical
Mature organized patient possessive reasonable responsible selfish s
ensitive sociable tidy vain
b. Many adjectives form the opposite by adding a negative prefix . Put the
adjective s from a in the chart .
Which prefix is the most common? UN

Which four adjectives dont have an exact opposite? BOSSY VAIN JEALOUS
POSSESSIVE
UnImInIrIlDisUncooperative
Impolite Insecure
Irregular
Ilegal
Disloyal
Unambitious
Immatur Inconsidera irresponsib illogic Dishonest
uncommunicati e
te
le
al
disorganiz
ve
impatie insensitive
ed
unfaithful
nt
unimaginative
unreasonable
unselfish
unsociable
untidy

PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES:NEGATIVE PREFIXES

a. Decide if some of these personal adjectives apply more to men or women.
Ambitious bossy communicative considerate faithful honest jealous
logical,imaginative,mature, organized patient possessive reasonable
responsible selfish sensitive sociable tidy vain
b. Many adjectives form the opposite by adding a negative prefix . Put the
adjective s from a in the chart .

Which prefix is the most common? Which four adjectives dont have an exact
opposite?
UnImInIrIlDisUncooperativ impolite
insecure
irregular
illegal
disloyal
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