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Quaint and ugly places

high level adjective but maybe you don't live in a pretty village or a quaint village so if you think your neighborhood is not so nice maybe you think it's ugly you can use the...

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

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a very

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high level adjective but maybe you don't

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live

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in a pretty village or a quaint village

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so if you think your neighborhood is not

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so

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nice maybe you think it's ugly you can

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use the word hideous

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hideous means extremely ugly and you

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could say something like

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my neighborhood is hideous but the

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people are nice

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okay and the next one is baffling

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baffling now baffling means

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difficult to understand or confusing

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or extremely surprising so

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it's baffling that some people believe

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the earth is flat

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okay so it's extremely difficult to

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understand it's just

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unbelievable really baffling it's so so

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confusing

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and then again sort of the opposite more

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or less is

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straightforward straightforward which

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means

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simple and easy the solution to the

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problem is straightforward in my opinion

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so the problem has a simple easy

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solution in my opinion it's not

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complicated it's not confusing it's not

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difficult it's

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straightforward and the next adjective

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is a synonym of big

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because you could use

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