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Describing something as dreadful

boost your partner's confidence too and the next one again is the opposite so it's bad something that is bad or very bad and it's dreadful dreadful so this is quite a common wor...

Course: Precise words and opinionsSection: Advanced adjectives for English examsSubtitles: en

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point

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boost your partner's confidence too and

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the next one again is the opposite

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so it's bad something that is bad or

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very bad

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and it's dreadful dreadful so this is

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quite a common word

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especially in british english i'm not

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sure if they use it so much in american

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english but in british english

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it's pretty common and it just means

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very bad so the example i think it's

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dreadful

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how people treat animals sometimes

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so it's very bad terrible awful all

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those cinnamon

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all those cinnamon all those synonyms

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but

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um dreadful is is a very good one it's a

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very proficiency level

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adjective now the next two adjectives

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number seven

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and eight are really useful for

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answering the first question in the

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speaking which is usually

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where are you from so these are good

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adjectives to describe

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where you live for example quaint

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now quaint means like pretty or

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different different in a pretty way okay

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so for example i live in a quaint

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village in the southeast of the country

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so instead of just saying pretty or

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charming you can say quaint it's a very

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high

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