Descriptive Nouns to Talk about Profession, Personality, or Characteristics

Describing people is something we do quite often in our everyday lives. We talk about our friends, family, and colleagues.
Therefore, I want to teach you some advanced nouns that you can use to describe someone's profession, personality, or characteristics.
If you'd like to review, here are the words from the lesson.
1. amateur
2. tutor
3. scholar
4. big fish
5. bigwig
6. (one's) right hand
7. valedictorian
8. dilettante
9. aficionado
10. confidant
11. proponent
12. guru
13. gourmet
14. humanitarian
15. coward
16. introvert
17. extrovert
18. perfectionist
19. purist
20. whizz
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/// LESSON CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro to advanced nouns
0:39 amateur
1:02 tutor
1:33 scholar
2:08 big fish / bigwig
2:51 (one's) right hand)
3:29 valedictorian
4:39 dilettante
5:36 aficionado
6:23 confidant
7:20 proponent
7:58 guru
8:23 gourmet
8:54 humanitarian
9:25 coward
9:51 introvert
10:09 extrovert
10:56 perfectionist
11:17 purist
12:05 whizz
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We have the words aficionado, guru and gourmet in Portuguese as well 😀

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Aficionado, amateur,tutor all of them are used in spanish

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His father is a big wig/fish person. You are my right hand. I wasn't valedictorian student in high school. I'm dilettante in music. I'm a novel books aficionado. She is confidant enough to help you. She is proponent of animal rights. I don't think he is a guru person. I'm not really gourment. I know I'm a coward person. She is a shy , introvert person. My parents are purist. She said that I was a language whizz person.

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A gourmet is a person who knows a lot about food and cooking and who enjoyS eating quality food. You left the S out where it would have been needed. Did you do it directly to look for someone who recognizes the mistakes and pay attention?

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Good eye! That was just a typo. Thanks for brining it to my attention. 👍

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I think, i am a humanitarian... I really like myself...

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8:15 in a broad sense it could be someone with high knowledge of something...a kind of authority....For ex.. weight loss guru

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I wasn't the valedictorian either, sadly. 😁

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Me neither. So we're in good company. 😉

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To be honest, I'm introverted person.

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[@josecarrizo4778]

Nouns don't "describe" nouns.

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Nouns - as well as verbs - can be descriptive words. These are descriptive nouns when talking about people. 👍

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2:09 Is the word beneficiary pronounced like that? I knew differently. And so did the available dictionaries: UK /ˌben.əˈfɪʃ.ər.i/ US /ˌben.əˈfɪʃ.i.er.i/

[@InteractiveEng]

You're right. That may be my Southern Dialect coming out. 😂 I'll see what changes that can make. For some reason that's not the only pronunciation trouble I had in this lesson (e.g. valedictorian). 🤦‍♂️

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