Study Appendix and characterize the main personages. Traits of character Active always doing things or ready to do things, especially physical activities: We had an active holiday

Appendix

Traits of character

Active always doing things or ready to do things, especially physical activities: We had an active holiday, sailing, swimming and water skiing. | She may be over 80, but she's still veryactive!
Inert not having the strength or power to move; very slow and unwilling to take any action: an inert form lying on the bed. Congress remained inert and skeptical about the proposal.
Vivacious someone who is vivacious has a lot of energy and a happy attractive manner: a vivacious and outgoing personality
Sleepyhead (spoken) someone, especially a child, who looks as if they want to go to sleep: Come on sleepyhead, wake up!
Slowcoach (noun [countable] BrE informal) someone who moves or does things too slowly; slowpoke AmE : Come on slowcoach, hurry up!
Cheerful behaving in a way that shows you are happy, for example by smiling or being very friendly: Despite feeling ill, she managed to keep cheerful. | a cheerful grin/smile/face (=showing that you are happy): Nancy gave me a cheerful grin and waved me over.
Bore (noun [countable]) someone who is boring, especially because they talk too much about themselves: He was something of a bore - going on about his charity work all evening. | soccer/photography etc bore(=someone who talks too much about photography etc)
Amiable friendly and likeable: The driver was an amiable young man.
Nuisance (noun [countable usually singular]) a person, thing, or situation that annoys you or causes problems: Those dogs next door are a thorough nuisance. | What a nuisance! spoken: What a nuisance! I've forgotten my ticket. | make a nuisance of yourself (=behave in a way that annoys other people): Stop making anuisanceof yourself.
Sullen silently showing anger or bad temper: a look of sullen resentment
Calm quiet and without excitement, nervous activity, or strong feeling: Richard spoke with calm authority. | Keep calm, and try not to panic!
Placid a placid person or animal does not easily get angry or excited: He had a placid nature, well-suited to teaching.
Irritable getting annoyed quickly or easily: Jo was tired,irritable, and depressed.
Peevish easily annoyed by small and unimportant things; bad-tempered: The kids were peevish after so long in the car.
Composed seeming calm and not upset or angry: He appeared very composed despite the stress he was under.
Hot-tempered having a tendency to become angry easily
Quick-tempered easily becoming angry: Our young men werequick-temperedand likely to do rash things.
Short-tempered easily becoming angry or impatient: Roger's back pain is making him pretty short-tempered these days.
Neat someone who is neat likes to keep things tidy: The new lodger was fortunately a neat person.
Defiant refusing clearly to do what someone tells you to do: He gave a short, defiant laugh.
Yielding willing to agree with other people's wishes and letting them decide instead of you: She is too yielding when clients make demands on her time.
Obedient always doing what you are told to do by your parents, by someone in authority etc: an obedient and dutiful child
Disobedient deliberately not doing what you are told to do by your parents, teacher, employer etc
Serious someone who is serious is always very sensible and quiet: He's a nice guy, but very serious; seeming slightly worried or unhappy: You look serious. What's wrong?
Easy-going not easily upset, annoyed, or worried: Her easy-goingnature made her popular.
Sensitive able to understand other people's feelings and problems: Underneath all that macho stuff, he's really asensitive guy; easily hurt, upset, or offended by things that people say: Don't be so sensitive - I wasn't criticizing you! [+ about]: Lara's very sensitive about her figure. | sensitive soul (=someone who is easily upset by small or unimportant things)
Callous not caring that other people are suffering: We were shocked at the callous disregard for human life. | the callous slaughter of thousands of seals
Cool calm and not nervous, upset, embarrassed etc: Now just stay cool. Everything's OK. | (as) cool as a cucumber (=very calm): Robert walked into the exam looking cool as a cucumber. | cool customer(=someone who behaves calmly in a difficult situation) | cool head (=ability to remain calm in a difficult situation): The job is quite demanding, so we need someone with a cool head. | cool, calm, and collected(=calm): Although she was nervous before the interview she managed to appear cool, calm and collected.
Touchy easily becoming offended or annoyed: Since his girlfriend left him, he's been very touchy.
Emotional showing your feelings to other people, especially by crying when you are upset: He became very emotionalwhen we had to leave.
Rational sensible and able to make decisions based on intelligent thinking rather than on emotion: rational behaviour | We should be able to sort this out like rationalhuman beings!
Irrational someone who is irrational tends to behave or do things without thinking clearly or without good reasons: He's becoming increasingly irrational.
Worldly having a lot of experience and knowledge about people and life: Crystal was worldly but willing to take a risk.
Trustworthy someone who is trustworthy can be trusted and depended upon; dependable
Superstitious influenced by old-fashioned beliefs about luck and magic
Ambitious determined to be successful, rich, powerful etc: an ambitiousand hard-working junior manager | be ambitious for sb (=want them to be very successful): Mothers are often highly ambitious for their children.
Arrogant so proud of your own abilities or qualities that you behave as if you are much more important than anyone else: I found him arrogantand overbearing.
Boastful talking too proudly about yourself: We all got drunk and became very loud and boastful.
Capricious likely to change your mind suddenly or behave in an unexpected way: as capricious and manipulative as her mother had been
Complacent pleased with what you have achieved so that you stop trying to improve or change things: There's a danger of becoming complacent if you win a few games. [+ about]: We simply cannot afford to be complacent about the future of our car industry.
Conceited behaving in a way that shows you think you are very clever, skilful, beautiful etc: He's a conceited little so-and-so.
Proud thinking that you are more important, skilful etc than you really are: Proud and boastful, Jaggers was typical of the young brokers.
Unpretentious not trying to seem better, more important etc than you really are: an unpretentious restaurant
Self-assured calm and confident about what you are doing: His air of self-assuredconfidence made him a born leader.
Self-confident sure that you can do things well, that people like you, that you are attractive etc, and not shy or nervous in social situations
Self-reliant able to decide what to do by yourself, without depending on the help or advice of other people: Hong Kong must prepare to be more self- reliantfor growth in the 1990s.
Self-denying not doing or having the things you enjoy, either because you cannot afford it, or for moral or religious reasons
Self-disciplined having the ability to make yourself do the things you know you ought to do, without someone making you do them: I just wonder if I'm self-disciplined enoughto finish the course.
Villain (noun BrE informal) a bad person or criminal: Watch him - he's a bit of a villain!
Broadminded willing to respect opinions or behaviour that are very different from your own: Her parents were broadminded, tolerant and liberal.
Narrow-minded unwilling to accept or understand new or different ideas or customs; prejudiced
Small-minded too concerned with the small problems and details of your life, so that you do not think about what is really important; petty (1): a greedy, bigoted and small-mindedman
Quick-witted able to understand things quickly and give quick, clever replies
Slow-witted - not good at understanding things: He was a big, slow-witted man who would hurt no-one.
Slowcoach (noun [countable] BrE informal) someone who moves or does things too slowly; slowpokeAmE : Come on slowcoach, hurry up!
Bright intelligent and likely to be successful: Rosa's a brightchild - she should do well at school. | (have) a bright idea: We've no money and the last bus has gone. Any bright ideas?
Dull not able to think quickly or understand things easily
Clever (especially BrE) able to learn and understand things quickly; intelligent: a cleverstudent | You tied your shoes up yourself? What a clever girl!
Sluggish moving or reacting more slowly than normal: I always feel sluggish first thing in the morning. | the company's sluggish sales performance
Sharp able to think and understand things very quickly, and not easily deceived: a journalist with an extremely sharpmind
Foolish a foolish person behaves in a silly way or looks silly: I was young and foolish at the time.
Smart (especially AmE) a) intelligent: The smart kids get good grades and go off to college. | Some smart lawyer got him out of jail. b) trying to seem clever in a disrespectful way: Don't get smart with me, young man.
Intelligent having a high level of mental ability so that you are good at understanding ideas and thinking quickly and clearly: If you're reasonably intelligent the maths involved should present no problems. USAGE NOTE: INTELLIGENT WORD CHOICE: intelligent, intellectual An intelligent person is someone with a quick and clever mind, but an intellectual person is someone who is well-educated and interested in subjects that need long periods of study. A small child, or even a dog, can be intelligent but cannot be called intellectual. Intelligent and intellectual are both adjectives, but intellectual can also be a noun: There are too many intellectuals in the government.
Witty using words in a clever and amusing way: a wittyspeaker | witty remarks
Deep someone who is deep or has deep thoughts thinks very hard about things, often in a way that other people find difficult to understand: Hal seems to me to be a very deep, sensitive type of person.
Shallow not interested in or showing any understanding of important or serious matters: a shallow argument | If he's only interested in your looks, that just shows how shallow he is.
Well-read having read many books and knowing a lot about different subjects
Knowledgeable knowing a lot [+ about]: Graham's very knowledgeable about wines.
Ignoramus (noun [countable] plural ignoramuses) someone who does not know about things that most people know about
Ignorant not knowing facts or information that you ought to know: an ignorant and uneducated man [+ of]: They were ignorant of any events outside their own town. [+ about]: I'm very ignorant about politics.
Scholarly someone who is scholarly spends a lot of time studying, and knows a lot about a particular subject
Illiterate someone who is illiterate has not learned to read or write
Learned formal having a lot of knowledge because you have read and studied a lot
Unlettered formal unable to read or uneducated
Enlightened showing a good understanding of something and not believing things about it that are false: enlightened opinions
Mediocre not very good: I thought the film was pretty mediocre. | a mediocrestudent
Feeble-minded unable to think clearly and decide what to do: Her husband's so feeble-minded - he won't do a thing unless she tells him to.
Gifted having a natural ability to do one or more things extremely well: a gifted pianist |gifted child (=one who is extremely intelligent)
Ordinary not particularly good or impressive: I thought the paintings were pretty ordinary.
Genius (noun [uncountable]) a very high level of intelligence, mental skill, or artistic ability, which only a few people have: a writer/work/woman etc of genius: an imaginative novelist of great genius| The film reveals Fellini's genius. | a stroke of genius(=a very clever idea) [countable] someone who has an unusually high level of intelligence, mental skill or artistic ability: a musical genius | You can't compare him with a true genius like Einstein. | be a genius at sth: Watch your money - Lou's a genius at cards.
Simple-minded unable to understand complicated things, and not showing much understanding of the world: a simple-minded desire for a return to the past
Sophisticated having a lot of experience of life, good judgment about socially important things such as art, fashion etc: a play that will only appeal to a sophisticatedaudience | a suave, sophisticated Frenchman
Unreasonable behaving in an unfair, unpleasant, or stupid way: Will thinks I'm being unreasonable in not lending him the car.

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