BIG WORDS FOR SMALL WORDS

amigável – amicableboisterous – barulhento ( noisy )contumelious – insolentdebonair - courteousdeleterious - hurtful

demotic - popularto derideDerelict…abandoned Desipient…foolish Desuetude…disuse

Edible…eatableEdacious…greedy Edentate…toothless Edulcorate…sweeten Elucidate…explain

Encomium…praise Endeavour…try Eschew…avoid Eulogy…praise Evanesce…disappear

Eximious…excellentExorbitant…excessive Expeditious…quick• Ignominy…disgrace • Impeccable…blameless

• Ineffable…unspeakable • Insouciant…careless • Irascible…irritable• Hamate…crooked• Histrionic…theatrical

Quixotic…visionary• Reticent…silent• Salutary…beneficial

Taciturn…reserved • Thesaurus…dictionary • Supercilious…arrogant• Oblivious •

waver • Verisimilitude…probability

Voracious…gluttonous• Zeal…Eagerness • Zest…Enjoyment• Querulous…complaining

• Myriad…countless

Nefarious...wicked • Negation…denial • Nescient…ignorant • Noxious…hurtful• Parsimonious…frugal • Pusillanimous…faint-hearted

• Garrulous….talkative• Keen…Eager

• Lethiferous…deadly • Loquacious….talkativeMendacious…untruthful

Munificent…liberal

• Facetious…jocular • Factitious…artificial • Fallacious…misleading • Fatuous…foolish • Fortnightly…bi-weekly • Fortuitous…accidental

ISTJ

I guess you can say I´m quiet, serious, and try to earn success by thoroughness and dependability. I see myself as practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, and responsible. I prefer to decide logically what should be done and I prefer to work toward it steadily, regardless of distractions. I take pleasure in making everything orderly and organized –work, home, life. I also value traditions and loyalty.

ISFJ•

I like to be quiet, friendly, responsible, and conscientious. I strive to be committed and steady in meeting my obligations. I have been described as thorough, painstaking, and accurate. I value being loyal, considerate, notice and remember specifics about people who are important to me, I am concerned with how others feel. I also strive to create an orderly and harmonious environment at my work and at home.

INFJ

•I seek meaning and connection in ideas, relationships, and material possessions. I want to understand what motivates people and are insightful about others. I value being conscientious and committed to sound, firm values. I think it´s important to develop a clear vision about how I can best serve the common good. I prefer to be organized and decisive in implementing any good vision I might have.

INTJ•

People say I have an original mind and great drive for implementing my ideas and achieving my goals. I feel I am quickly in seeing patterns in external events and develop long-range explanatory perspectives. When I am committed to something, really enjoy to organize a job and carry it through. I am skeptical and independent, not that I like it, but I have high standards of competence and performance – for myself and others.

ISTP

•I strive to be tolerant and flexible, quiet observer until a problem appears, then I tend to act quickly to find workable solutions. I enjoy analyzing what makes things work and readily get through large amounts of data to isolate the core of practical problems. I´m interested in cause and effect, organize facts using logical principles and I realy value efficiency.

ISFP

• I prefer to be quiet, friendly, sensitive, and kind. I enjoy the present moment, what’s going on around me. I like to have my own space and to work within my own time frame. I think it´s importnat to be loyal and committed to my values and to people who are important to me. I dislike disagreements and conflicts, do not force my opinions or values on others.

INFP

•I am Idealistic, loyal to my values and to people who are important to me. I want an external life that is congruent with my values. I think I am curious, quick to see possibilities, can be catalysts for implementing ideas. I seek to understand people and to help them fulfill their potential. I am adaptable, flexible, and accepting unless a value is threatened.

INTP

•I Seek to develop logical explanations for everything that interests me. I am theoretical and abstract, interested more in ideas than in social interaction. I´m quiet, contained, flexible, and adaptable. I have an unusual ability to focus in depth to solve problems in my area of interest. I am skeptical, sometimes critical, always analytical.

ESTP

•I am flexible and tolerant, I take a pragmatic approach focused on immediate results. Theories and conceptual explanations bore me – I want to act energetically to solve the problem. I focus on the here-and-now, I am spontaneous, enjoy each moment that I can be active with others. I enjoy material comforts and style. I learn best through doing.

ESFP

•I am outgoing, friendly, and accepting. I like to think of myself as an exuberant lover of life, people, and material comforts. I enjoy working with others to make things happen. I like to bring common sense and a realistic approach to my work, and make work fun. I am flexible and spontaneous, I adapt readily to new people and environments. I learn best by trying a new skill with other people.

ENFP

•I am warmly enthusiastic and imaginative. I see life as full of possibilities. I make connections between events and information very quickly, and confidently proceed based on the patterns I see. I want a lot of affirmation from others, and readily give appreciation and support. I am spontaneous and flexible and I often rely on my ability to improvise and on my verbal fluency.

ENTP

•I am quick, ingenious, stimulating, alert, and outspoken. I am resourceful in solving new and challenging problems. I am adept at generating conceptual possibilities and then analyzing them strategically. I am good at reading other people. I get bored by routine, I will seldom do the same thing the same way, I am apt to turn to one new interest after another.

ESTJ

•I am Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact. I am decisive, quickly move to implement decisions. I like to organize projects and people to get things done, focus on getting results in the most efficient way possible. I take care of routine details. I have a clear set of logical standards, systematically follow them and I want others to also. I know I am forceful in implementing my plans.

ESFJ

•I think I´m warmhearted, conscientious, and cooperative. Want harmony in my environment, I work with determination to establish it. I like to work with others to complete tasks accurately and on time. People tell me I´m loyal, follow through even in small matters. I notice what others need in their day-by-day lives and I try to provide it. I want people to be appreciated for who they are and for what they contribute.

ENFJ

•I think of myself as warm, empathetic, responsive, and responsible. I am Highly attuned to the emotions, needs, and motivations of others. I find potential in everyone, want to help others fulfill their potential. I may act as catalysts for individual and group growth. I am loyal, responsive to praise and criticism. I am sociable, facilitate others in a group, and provide inspiring leadership.

ENTJ

•I am frank, decisive, assume leadership readily. I quickly see illogical and inefficient procedures and policies, develop and implement comprehensive systems to solve organizational problems. I enjoy long-term planning and goal setting. I am usually well informed, well read, I enjoy expanding my knowledge and passing it on to others. I am forceful in presenting my ideas.