Expand your vocabulary with extreme adjectives!

One easy way to instantly upgrade your vocabulary is to use extreme adjectives.

That means, for example, instead of saying ‘The queue for the Justin Bieber concert last night was very big‘, you say ‘The queue was absolutely huge‘.

Why use extreme adjectives?

The benefits of using extreme adjectives are:

• You don’t have to say ‘very’ and ‘really’ all the time so your speaking doesn’t sound repetitive
• You have a variety of words to choose from so your speaking sounds more interesting
• You can express emotion and emphasise meaning
• AND extreme adjectives work really well in conversations

Watch the video lesson below to see what I mean…..

Remember if you use a basic adjective, you can use it with modifiers like ‘very’ or ‘really’ but if you use an extreme adjective, use ‘absolutely’ to make it even stronger.

Don’t mix those modifiers up, they sound very strange to native English speakers if you use them with the wrong type of adjective.

Learning new vocabulary

Ok, so now you’ve watched the video, you’ve got some great extreme adjectives and you’ve practised your pronunciation – Good job!

But, if you’re like me, you want to keep a list of that new vocabulary so feel free to save the handy image down below 👇

You can use that image to test yourself too. Just cover the right side and see if you can remember the new adjectives.

I’d also suggest making your own examples with any new words. For example

‘I was absolutely devastated when I was 7 and my pet hamster died!’

Making examples that are personal and relevant to you is a great way to record new vocabulary and helps it to stick in your head.

Questions for you….

Are you going to start using extreme adjectives more in your speaking? Which one do you think you’ll use? Leave me a reply below 👇