Vocabulary

Avoiding “very…”

A:

Very accurate - exact

Very afraid - fearful

Very angry - furious

Very annoying - exasperating

B:

Very bad - atrocious

Very beautiful - exquisite

Very big - immense

Very boring - dull

Very bright - luminous

Very busy - swamped

C:

Very calm - serene

Very careful - cautious

Very cheap - stingy

Very clean - spotless

Very clear - obvious

Very clever -

• paragon : the perfect example of something.

• slipshod (adj) : a sloppy lack of precision.

• concordance : an alphabetical list of all usages of a word in a corpus.

• presumptuous : taking liberties and overstepping boundaries with assumpitons.

• cosmos : not just a synonym for universe, but a beautiful universe (cosmetic)

• sophistry : rhetorical masters without a compass, from ancient Greece, hucksters and mercenaries; using the dark arts of craft to deceive populations.

• philosophy : the communal pursuit of wisdom (philo = friends, sophia = wisdom).

• prescient : foresight into the future thr