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Vocabulary: kind, nice or nasty - English lesson

The vocabulary about KINDNESS and NICENESS is often very useful in order to show your appreciation of actions and people... The words expressing nastiness are useful too, but much less pleasant to use...

To be thoughtful (or considerate)

Sympathetic/ compassionate		sympathy/ compassion
To feel sorry for sb		To sympathise with sb
Good/ goodness		Kind/ kindness
Gentle/ gentleness		Considerate/ thoughtful
Humane		A decent person

Sympathy... Gentleness

Pleasant	delightful
To like somebody/ to be fond of	friendly
To be kind-hearted	warm-hearted
Tender-hearted	understanding
Well-intentioned	tolerant
To tolerate somebody/ to put up with somebody	indulgent/ lenient
To have pity on somebody	mercy/ merciful

... but there is nastiness too...

Bad	wicked
Nasty/ (US) mean	wickedness/ nastiness meanness
To be cruel to someone	unpleasant/ unkind
To be sour-tempered/ surly	sour
Harsh/ stern/ hard	To be harsh with somebody To be hard on somebody
Ruthless/ merciless/ pitiless	relentless/ remorseless
To be heartless	To have a heart of stone

To be hard on someone A ruthless expression

... AND A FEW COMMON EXPRESSIONS:

- to be kindness itself: (the embodiment of a particular trait)

- to do someone a kindness (to do a favour)

- to kill with kindness: (give excessive kindness)

- to give out the kindness of (one's) heart: (because of generosity or goodwill)

- ... "the milk of human kindness" (in Shakespeare's Macbeth)

- leave a nasty taste in the mouth (give a negative impression)

- something nasty in the woodshed: a shocking or distasteful secret. British informal

Many words and expressions, of course... but I'm sure you'll pass the test brilliantly...

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1. 'You had prepared and cleaned everything when I arrived, exhausted. It was ever so of you. You’re great!'

2. 'My boss was very and gave me my day off when I spoke about my father’s accident.'

3. Despite Ellen’s seeming , she can be quite unyielding when she decides to.

4. < 'Sorry but he’ll have to calm down.I can’t his whining and screaming.'>

5. The judge gave the culprit a light sentence thanks to extenuating circumstances.

6. The boy was tormenting the puppy but was bitten by its mother.

7. He’s so ambitious that he has now become and shows no pity to his colleagues.

8. Nan was doting on her grand-daughter and was literally .

9. He didn’t like to be disturbed when working and was every time he was asked a question.

10. The student was so in his work that he was sure to pass his final exam.

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