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skittish (adjective
1. Being unpredictable and easily excited: "Skittish horses are often seen in parades because of the loud noises and crowds of people that make some of them very nervous and jumpy."
2. Nervous or worried: "Some skittish children are afraid to meet strangers."
3. Easily startled or timid and afraid: "The cat is calm and friendly with people she knows, but she becomes a skittish cat when strangers come to visit."
2. Nervous or worried: "Some skittish children are afraid to meet strangers."
3. Easily startled or timid and afraid: "The cat is calm and friendly with people she knows, but she becomes a skittish cat when strangers come to visit."
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English Words in Action, Group S +
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“adjective”
1. In grammar, a word that is used to describe a noun or a pronoun by providing more information about those parts of speech: "Adjectives slightly change the meanings of other words by adding descriptions or by making them more specific."
2. Any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English, by having comparative and superlative endings: "Adjectives function as modifiers of nouns; such as, good, wise, perfect, beautiful, bad, sad, loud, etc."
2. Any member of a class of words that in many languages are distinguished in form, as partly in English, by having comparative and superlative endings: "Adjectives function as modifiers of nouns; such as, good, wise, perfect, beautiful, bad, sad, loud, etc."
"The three most common adjectives are the articles: a, an, and the. The a and an are the indefinite articles; they refer to any one of a class of nouns. The, is a definite article that refers to a specific noun."
"Examples of the indefinite articles, or adjectives, are a contest, and an opportunity. A definite article sample is the writer."
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ad-
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jet-, -ject, -jecting, -jected, -jection, -jector, -jectory; jacu-, jac-
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(Latin: adjective suffix signifying action or being; performing a particular acion)
(Greek: -etikos, an adjective suffix meaning "pertaining to, of the nature of" for nouns ending in -esis)
(Latin: suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing act, state, quality, property, or condition corresponding to an adjective)
(Latin: medium is the neuter form of the adjective medius, meaning "middle"; as well as, a neuter noun meaning, "the middle")
(Greek: leaf; from the adjective petalos, "flat, spread out")
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heptachromic adjective)
1. A reference to that which exhibits seven colors: "A heptachromic spectrum presents the complete range of colors into which light can be separated when it passes through a prism."
2. Pertaining to the capability of seeing all seven colors of a spectrum: "Tamika had normal heptachromic color vision."
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hepta-, hept-
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