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1 Jealousy 2 Happiness 3 Hope 4 Love 5 permanence; beauty
('Coke' in question 2 means the fuel produced while taking gas from coal. A migraine is a very
bad headache.)

How you answer this question is a matter of your own originality. Here are some 'real'
quotations about these abstract nouns, however:
1 Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and to fight for it, we must be prepared
to extend it to everyone.
2 Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of
those things that gives value to survival.
3 Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
4 Four be the things I'd be better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
5 Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.

Unit I2

Note that when you are looking compound adjectives up in the dictionary, you may sometimes
find the word listed under its second element rather than its first. Sometimes, in some
dictionaries, the word will not be listed at all if the meaning is absolutely clear from an
understanding of the two elements.
Notice that the descriptions of Tom and Melissa on the left-hand page are light-hearted and
far-fetched! They are not examples of good style as such long lists of adjectives would be
inappropriate in a normal composition.

Some possible answers:
1 brown 3 broad 5 British 7 hot
bright-eyed narrow-minded ready-made pig-headed
wide single home bald
2 fool 4 polo 6 tax 8 kind
dust-proof low-necked problem-free soft-hearted
fire high care hard
Here is one possible way of categorising the words. There will be many other ways of
categorising them. What is important is not how you categorise them but the process of doing the
exercise itself. The process should help you to learn the words.
Words connected with money: cut-price duty-free interest-free
Words connected with comfort, safety and convenience: air-conditioned drip-dry
hand-made remote-controlled sugar-free bullet-proof
Words connected with time: last-minute long-standing off-peak part-time
record-breaking time-consuming
Words often connected with travelling: long-distance second-class
Words often used to describe people: so-called world-famous
Odd man out: top-secret!

.3 Some examples:
self-assured P self-satisfied N self-confident P self-conscious N
self-seeking N self-possessed P self-indulgent N self-employed neutral
self-evident neutral self-sufficient neutral self-willed N self-effacing N
1 No, she's long-sighted. 4 No, they're flat-heeled/low-heeled.
2 No, he's hard-up (or badly-off). 5 No, it's hand-made.
3 No, he's badly-behaved. 6 No, in the north-west.

English Vocabulary in Use