Types of People

General

Part 2. Character

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Exercise 1. Study the following vocabulary.

Vocabulary

1. man (person)

2. individual (n., adj.) (individuum)

3. personality

4. character

5. human nature

6. quality

· innate qualities

7. trait

· hereditary traits

· acquired traits

8. split personality

9. aptitude (for) (capability; ability)

· he shows aptitude for dealing with problems

10. faculty

· the faculty of making friends easily

· have a great faculty for learning languages

11. power

· he is a man of great intellectual powers

12. characteristic feature

· learnt (learned) features

13. behaviour/behavioural pattern

14. motive, drive

15. reaction, response

16. attitude

17. merit (strength)

18. weakness/fault

19. sin

20. estimate (v)

· self-esteem

21. virtue

22. mannerism

1. an adjudicator

2. an adolescent

3. an agnostic

4. an anarchist

5. an arbitrator

6. an atheist

7. a battle-axe

8. a benefactor

9. a beneficiary

10. a bigot

11. a bookworm

12. a bore

13. a bully

14. a busybody

15. a bystander

16. a castaway

17. a charlatan

18. a chatterbox

19. a civilian

20. a clock-watcher

21. a conscientious objector

22. a conscript

23. a coward

24. a crank

25. a cynic

26. a dare-devil

27. a day-dreamer

28. a degenerate

29. a deserter

30. a Don Juan

31. an early bird

32. an erudite

33. an expatriate

34. a fare-dodger

35. a femme fatale

36. a fool (n)

37. a good company

38. a good mixer

39. a date-crasher

40. a genius

41. a golden boy

42. a gossip

43. a hermit

44. a highbrow

45. a high flier

46. an imposter

47. an ignoramus

48. an infant

49. an invigilator

50. a jay-walker

51. a jet-setter

52. a juvenile

53. a killjoy

54. a layabout

55. a lazybones

56. a life and soul of the party

57. a litter-lout

58. a loner

59. a lone wolf

60. a miser

61. a name-dropper

62. a nationalist

63. a nosey parker

64. a pain in the neck

65. a parasite

66. a patriot

67. a penfriend

68. a picket

69. a proprietor

70. a road-hog

71. a rolling stone

72. a sadist

73. a scapegoat

74. a sceptic

75. a scatterbrain

76. a scrounger

77. a scoundrel

78. a shirker

79. a slacker

80. a slave-driver

81. a slob

82. a slow coach

83. a slowpoke (dawdler)

84. a snob

85. a social climber

86. a socialite

87. a spendthrift

88. a sponger

89. a squatter

90. a tear-away

91. a teetotaller

92. a tomboy

93. a troublemaker

94. a tycoon

95. a veteran

96. a villain

97. a wallflower

98. a wet blanket

99. a wind-bag

100. a workaholic

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