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Vocabulary: character and personality - English lesson
I) CHARACTER and TEMPERAMENT:
To mould sb's character | To be good/ ill-natured To be good/ bad tempered |
To be of a cheerful disposition To be cheerful by temperament | To be cold/ passionate by nature |
A good quality | A bad quality/ a fault |
A failing/ a shortcoming | Innate |
Individualistic | To be balanced (balance) |
To be changeable | To be unstable |
Optimism vs pessimism To be unstable
Optimistic An optimist | Pessimistic A pessimist | |
Optimism | Pessimism | |
Optimistically | Pessimistically |
Shy/ timide/ bashful | Tough |
Shyness/ timidity/ Bashfulness | Strong/ strength |
Weak/ weakness | To have a weakness for sth |
Spineless | To be liable to do sg |
To be inclined to do | To tend to do sg => a tendency to |
To have leanings towards sth | To be liable/ prone to do |
II) BEHAVIOUR.
To behave | To behave (well) |
To misbehave | A misdemeanour A misbehaviour |
Decent | Proper |
Morals | Virtuous/ a virtue |
To have a good/ bad reputation | Immoral |
Indecent | Depraved |
A pervert | Perverted |
FAUX-AMI : vicious= dangerously hateful and ready to do violence; immoral or evil
To act on impulse | |
Apathetic | |
An eccentricity A quirk (of character) | |
Whimsical | |
To be in a bad mood To be out of humour | |
Moody |
FAUX-AMI: lunatic= an insane person.
III) A FEW EXPRESSIONS:
- That's just like him/ That's in character (for him)
- To have a reputation for/ being generous/ generosity
- To feel in the mood for doing stg
- To be in the right (kind of) mood for doing stg
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