1. 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
FEELINGS
Adorable 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:

2. 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,

3. 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 QUANTITY
Broad 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

4. Thundering Tasty Uneven Pink
Whispering Tasteless Wet Turquoise
eg- Blaring loudspeaker eg- Delicious pastry eg- Rough surface eg- Green diamond
FORMING NOUNS
NOUNS VERBS ADJECTIVES NOUNS
absent absence
act action
add addition
agree agreement
angry anger
arrive arrival
attend attention
bad badness
beautiful beauty
begin beginning
behave behavior
brave bravery
breathe breath
bright brightness
broad breadth
brother brotherhood
busy business
child childhood
choose choice
clean cleanliness
collect collection
correct correction
cruel cruelty
dark darkness
deep depth
describe description
die death
divide division
do deed
draw drawing
dry dryness
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.

5. enjoy enjoyment
enter entrance
explain explanation
fail failure
fat fatness
feed food
fit fitness
foolish foolishness
free freedom
friend friendship
give gift
glad gladness
good goodness
great greatness
grow growth
happy happiness
hate hatred
heal health
high height
honest honesty
hungry hunger
imagine imagination
instruct instruction
invent invention
invite invitation
judge judgement
kind kindness
king kingdom, kingship
know knowledge
laugh laughter
lazy laziness
leader leadership
lend loan
like likeness
live life
long length
lose loss
mad madness
man manhood
marry marriage
member membership
mix mixture
mother motherhood
move movement
multiply multiplication
neighbor neighborhood
new newness
obey obedience
occupy occupation
permit permission
please pleasure

6. poet poetry
proud pride
prove proof
punish punishment
ready readiness
remember remembrance
sad sadness
safe safety
scholar scholarship
see sight
sell sale
sharp sharpness
sick sickness
sit seat
slow slowness
soft softness
speak speech
strong strength
succeed success
sweet sweetness
teach teaching
tell tale
thick thickness
think thought
thirsty thirst
tight tightness
true truth
valuable value
warm warmth
weak weakness
wed wedding
weigh weight
wide width
wise wisdom
young youth