Useful Words You Need




Before I Start



This script is going to introduce some words-adjectives often used when you write or read some essay that you are bound to success test. Please check and keep. These are truly important expressions.

It is going to be updated.



== similar // =; reference // =! same not 



1. Importance


fundamental = very important

grand
important

piffling ( extremely small)= fiddling(NOT INTEREST IN)



2. Quantity


a vast number of sth s

a sheer number of sth s

a large number of sth s

a small number of sth s

a number of sth s == scanty

a limited number of sth s



if use 'the' instead of 'a', you can accept these 'number of sth s' as one of the groups that want to say in a sentence as a singular noun.



the large number of sth s == an array of sth s



3. Size 



Both


cosmic == illimitable =! immeasurable

massive == immense

oversize

huge ==grand == vast == gargantuan == outsized

sizable

big = large

undersized

small = little ==elfin

scanty

compact == petite

baby

pocket-sized (fist)

minuscule

minute

microscopic



Vertical


giant

tall == lanky(include thin) == strapping(and hulking)

big = large

undersized

small = little

pint-size

tiny == petite(female’s tall)

teeny

baby == elfin

chunky == pudgy == stocky



Horizontal


extensive

expansive

wide

close

narrow



4. Body Wide (fat)


fleshy == portly

rotund(round)

obese == stout

fat

plump == curvy(female only)

slim == lanky

slender

skimpy == skinny

meager

lean == scrawny

emaciated == gaunt == haggard(face only)

scraggy(bond) == skeletal



5. Body Size (muscle)


massive

strapping == sturdy

hulking

slim == lanky

slender

skimpy == skinny

meager

lean == scrawny

emaciated == gaunt == haggard(face only)

scraggy(bond) == skeletal



6. Length


limitless == endless

long

Short