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Adjetivos sofisticados para personas e ideas
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Describe mentes, caracteres, argumentos y problemas con adjetivos precisos como erudite, astute, incisive, tenuous, spurious e intractable.
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- Only a truly ___ scholar, who had read widely in several languages and fields, could trace the origin of the phrase.
- The link between the two studies is ___: it rests on a single, unverified anecdote.
- The disease is ___: symptoms are mild at first and the damage builds up unnoticed.
- Despite the poor forecasts, Kofi remained ___ about the company's future.
- Her analysis was ___: in a few sharp sentences it went straight to the heart of the problem.
- Fame on social media can be ___: today's star is forgotten by next month.
- The winner was ___ in victory, praising her rival's skill and offering to share the prize.
- There was a ___ agreement among the staff that nobody would mention the incident again.
Completa las frases
Completa cada frase con una palabra de esta lista. Usa cada palabra una sola vez: astute, spurious, intractable, inscrutable, erudite, magnanimous, insidious, tenuous.
- The ___ investor sold her shares weeks before the market turned.
- The claim that the herb cures every illness is ___; no study has ever confirmed it.
- The boundary dispute between the two neighbours proved ___: years of patient mediation failed to bring them any closer.
- The old judge's face was ___; no one could tell what he was thinking.
- Her ___ lectures, full of references to philosophy, history and mathematics, attract students from every faculty.
- It was ___ of him to forgive the debt in full.
- The ___ spread of misinformation is hard to notice until it has changed opinions.
- Because the connection between the two events was extremely slight and ___, the committee refused to draw a conclusion.
Respuestas
Elige el adjetivo correcto
- b) eruditeMucha erudición es erudite. Astute significa astuto, no instruido.
- c) tenuousUna conexión muy débil es tenuous. Incisive describe un análisis agudo, no un vínculo.
- b) insidiousEl daño que se extiende poco a poco y sin verse es insidious.
- d) sanguineAlegremente optimista en una situación difícil es sanguine.
- c) incisiveEl pensamiento agudo y claro que llega al núcleo de un problema es incisive. Tenuous significaría débil.
- c) ephemeralDurar solo un tiempo breve es ephemeral.
- b) magnanimousGeneroso con un rival es magnanimous.
- d) tacitUn acuerdo entendido sin que se diga es tacit.
Completa las frases
- astute / shrewd / canny / savvyAstuto y rápido para leer una situación es astute.
- spurious / false / baseless / unfounded / groundless / bogus / dubiousUna afirmación que parece auténtica pero es falsa es spurious.
- intractable / insoluble / unsolvable / irresolvable / unresolvableUn problema que se resiste a todo intento de resolverlo es intractable.
- inscrutable / unreadable / impassive / expressionless / blankImposible de leer o interpretar es inscrutable.
- erudite / learned / scholarlyMostrar gran erudición es erudite.
- magnanimous / generous / gracious / noble / kindGeneroso e indulgente es magnanimous.
- insidious / gradual / creeping / slow / subtleEl daño que se extiende poco a poco y sin que se note es insidious.
- tenuous / weak / flimsy / fragile / thinUn vínculo muy leve y frágil es tenuous.