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Vocabulary
*Adjectives

• Beautiful:
  admirable, alluring, angelic, appealing, beauteous, bewitching, charming, classy, comely, cute, dazzling, delicate, delightful, divine, elegant, enticing, excellent, exquisite, fair, fascinating, fine, foxy, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, grand, handsome, ideal, lovely, magnificent, marvelous, nice, pleasing, pretty, pulchritudinous, radiant, ravishing, refined, resplendent, shapely, sightly, splendid, statuesque, stunning, sublime, superb, symmetrical, taking, well-formed, wonderful
  
• Good:
  acceptable, ace, admirable, agreeable, bad, bully, capital, choice, commendable, congenial, crack, deluxe, excellent, exceptional, favorable, first-class, first-rate, gnarly, gratifying, great, honorable, marvelous, neato, nice, pleasing, positive, precious, prime, rad, recherché, reputable, satisfactory, satisfying, select, shipshape, sound, spanking, splendid, sterling, stupendous, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superior, tip-top, valuable, welcome, wonderful, worthy
  
• Great:
  able, absolute, aces, adept, admirable, adroit, bad, best, brutal, cold, complete, consummate, crack, downright, dynamite, egregious, exceptional,excellent, expert, fab, fantastic, fine, first-rate, good, heavy, hellacious, marvelous, masterly, mostest, number one, out-and-out, perfect, positive, proficient, skilled, skillful, super dupe, surpassing, terrific, total, tough, transcendent, tremendous, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, wonderful, zero cool
  

*Actions

• Speak:
  articulate, assert, aver, blab, break silence, bull, chat, chew, chin, communicate, converse, convey, declare, deliver, descant, discourse, drawl, enunciate, expatiate, express, gab, gas, go, jaw, lip, modulate, mouth, mumble, murmur, mutter, perorate, pop off, pronounce, rap, say, shout, sound, spiel, spill, state, tell, utter, verbalize, vocalize, voice, whisper, yak, yam
  
• Walk:
  airing, carriage, circuit, constitutional, gait, hike, jaunt, legwork, march, pace, parade, promenade, ramble, saunter, shlep, step, stretch, stride, stroll, tour, traipse, tramp, tread, turn, saunter
  
• Run:
  bound, break, canter, dart, dash, drop, escape, fall, flight, flow, gallop, jog, lope, pace, race, rush, scamper, scuttle, spring, sprint, spurt, tear, trot, whisk
  

*Body Parts

• Body:
  physique, anatomy, bod, build, carcass, chassis, embodiment, figure, form, frame, make-up, shape, tenement, torso, trunk
  
• Head:
  attic, belfry, block, brain, coconut, cranium, crown, dome, dream box, noddle, noggin, nut, pate, poll, potato, pumpkin, scalp, skull, thinker, upstairs
  
• Eyes:
  optics, orbs, voids, pools, spheres, crystals, oculi, peeper, pie, winker
  
• Mouth/Lips:
  brim, brink, chops, labium, labrum, aperture, beak, firth, jaws, orifice, trap, yap
  

*Emotions

• Happy:
  blessed, blest, blissful, blithe, captivated, cheerful, chipper, content, contented, convivial, delighted, ecstatic, elated, exultant, gleeful, gratified, joyful, jubilant, mirthful, overjoyed, peaceful, peppy, pleasant, pleased, satisfied, thrilled
  
• Sad:
  bereaved, bitter, blue, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast, forlorn, gloomy, grieved, heartbroken, languishing, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, morbid, morose, mournful, pensive, pessimistic, somber, sorrowful, wistful, woebegone
  
• Angry:
  affronted, annoyed, antagonized, bitter, convulsed, cross, displeased, enraged, exasperated, ferocious, fierce, fuming, furious, heated, impassioned, indignant, inflamed, infuriated, irritated, offended, outraged, raging, storming, vexed, wrathful
  
• Love:
  affection, amity, appreciation, ardor, cherishing, crush, delight, devotion, enchantment, enjoyment, fidelity, fondness, friendship, inclination, infatuation, lust, passion, rapture, sentiment, tenderness, zeal
  
• Hate:
  abhorrence, abomination, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, disgust, dislike, enmity, execration, hatred, hostility, irritant, loathing, malevolence, malignity, rancor, repulsion, resentment, scorn
  

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Grammar

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[li]Homonyms:
*Homonyms are words that sound alike or nearly alike but have different meanings and different spellings.
*Make sure you know what the word means, and have it in the right context to use it.

[/li][li]Plurals:
*The plural form of most nouns is created simply by adding the letter s.
*Words that end in -ch, x, s or s-like sounds, however, will require an -es for the plural.

[/li][li]I before E except after C:
*It's I before E except after C or when pronounced 'ay'
as in 'neighbour' and 'weigh'.

[/li][li]Dropping Final E:
*When adding an ending to a word that ends with a silent e, drop the final e if the ending begins with a vowel.

[/li][li]Dropping Final Y:
-When adding an ending to a word that ends with y, change the y to i when it is preceded by a consonant.

[/li][li]Doubling Final Consonants:
*Double the final consonant before adding an ending that begins with a vowel when the last syllable of the word is accented and that syllable ends in a single vowel followed by a single consonant.

*Punctuation

[/li][li]Periods: .
*Use a period at the end of a complete sentence that is a statement.
*If the last word in the sentence ends in a period, do not follow it with another period.
*Use the period after an indirect question.

[/li][li]Comma: ,
*To avoid confusion, use commas to separate words and word groups with a series of three or more.
*Use a comma to separate two adjectives when the word and can be inserted between them.
*Use a comma when an ly adjective is used with other adjectives.
*Use commas to set off expressions that interrupt the flow of the sentence.
*Use the comma to separate two sentences if it will help avoid confusion.

[/li][li]Question Mark: ?
*Use a question mark only after a direct question.
*Use a question mark when a sentence is half statement and half question.

[/li][li]Exclamation Mark: !
*Use exclamation points to show emphasis or surprise.

[/li][li]Quotation Mark: " "
*Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks, even inside single quotes.
*Use quotation marks when speaking.

[/li][li]Apostrophes: '
*Use the apostrophe with contractions. The apostrophe is always placed at the spot where the letter(s) has been removed.
*Use the apostrophe to show possession. Place the apostrophe before the s to show possession by one person.

[/li][li]Capitalization: ABC
*Capitalize the first word of a quoted sentence.
*Capitalize a proper noun.
*Capitalize titles of publications except for little words such as a, an, the, but, as, if, and, or, nor, when used internally. If these little words begin the title, capitalize them. Capitalize short verb forms such as Is, Are, and Be.[/li][/ul]