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DESCRIBING PEOPLE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - a heart of gold
      - one's heart's in the right place: is a good annd kind person even thought they do not always seem so
      - as good as gold: used generally for children
    - - have a nasty piece of work: unpleasant
      - an awkwaed customer: difficult person to deal with
      - to be as hard as nail; no sympathy for others
      - to be a pain in the neck: nuisance, difficult
      - get on everyone's nerves : irritates everybody
  - - - a head for height: not suffer from vertigo
      - a head like sieve
      - your head screwed on the right way: be sensible, informal
      - a good head for firures: be good at maths
      - your head in the clouds/ out of touch : unaware of reality
    - - bury your head in the sand: refuse to think about difficult situatuon in the hope you wont have to deal with it
      - keep your head: stay calm
      - be head and shoulders above someone: much better than
- - - - unatractive
    - - scruffy, untidy-looking/ messy-looking
  - - - stout
      - a bit overweight
      - plump
    - - skinny (negtive)
  - - - round-faced/ a round face
      - a chubby face
      - thin-faced/ a thin face
    - - skin
        
        the freckles
        
        the winkles
        
        to get a tan
        
        to get sunburnt
      - complexion
        
        white, black
        
        fair, dark
    - - long, wavy hair
      - straight hair
      - curly hair
      - a crew-cut
      - bald adj: with little or no hair on the head
      - receding hair
      - the colour
        
        ginger-haired/ red-haired
        
        auburn hair
        
        blonde, fair, dark
- - - - extroverted
      - relaxed
      - optimistic
      - down-to-earth
      - sensible
    - - introverted
      - sensitive
      - pessimistic
      - tense/ wound up/ stressed out
      - up set/ worked up
  - - - stupid/ foolish/ simple/ silly
      - brainless/ daft/ dumb/ dim/ thick ( infor )
    - - cunning/ crafty/ sly
    - - sharp
      - able
      - intelligent/ clever
      - shrewd
      - brainy ( infor)
      - bright
      - gifted/talented
  - - - even-tempered
      - laid-back*
      - easy-going
    - - rude
      - ill-mannered
      - impolite
      - discourteous*: rude and not considering other people's feelings
    - - cruel
      - sadistic: getting pleasure, sometimes sexual, by being cruel to or hurting another person
    - - honest
      - trustworthy
      - reliable
      - sincere: (of a person, feelings, or behaviour) not pretending or lying; honest
    - - quarrelsome: A quarrelsome person repeatedly argues with other people.
      - argumentative: often arguing or wanting to argue
    - - jealous
      - envious: wishing you had what another person has
    - - sociable
      - gregarious*: liking to be with other people
  - - - mean
      - tight-fisted
      - stingy
      - miserly*
    - - arrogant
      - full of yourself
      - self-important
    - - stubborn
      - pig-headed
      - obstinate: unreasonably determined, especially to act in a particular way and not to change at all, despite what anyone else says
    - - odd
      - peculiar weird
      - eccentric
    - - abrupt
      - brusque: quick and rude in manner or speech
      - blunt
      - curt
    - - unprincipled
      - permissive: A person or society that is permissive allows behaviour that other people might disapprove of
    - - inquisitive: wanting to discover as much as you can about things, sometimes in a way that annoys people
      - nosy
    - - extravagant: spending too much money, or using too much of something
    - - naive: too willing to believe that someone is telling the truth, that people's intentions in general are good, or that life is simple and fair. People are often naive because they are young and/or have not had much experience of life
    - - pushy: behaving in an unpleasant way by trying too much to get something or to make someone do something
    - - bossy: A bossy person is always telling people what to do
      - aggressive: behaving in an angry and violent way towards another person