Étiquette : reference

Synonyms For Very

living-that-library-lifestyle:

writing-masterlists:

This masterlist is a masterlist of words that you may use alongside the word very, very being one of the most common words that are used when writing. I hope this helps you as much as it helps me in our writing seem more sophisticated and unique. 

A:

Very accurate – exact
Very afraid – fearful
Very angry – furious
Very annoying – exasperating

B:

Very bad – atrocious
Very beautiful – exquisite
Very big – immense
Very boring – dull
Very bright – luminous
Very busy – swamped

C:

Very calm – serene
Very careful – cautious
Very cheap – stingy
Very clean – spotless
Very clear – obvious
Very clever – intelligent
Very cold – freezing
Very colourful – vibrant
Very competitive – cutthroat
Very complete – comprehensive
Very confused – perplexed
Very conventional – conservative
Very creative – innovative
Very crowded – bustling
Very cute – adorable

D:

Very dangerous – perilous
Very dear – cherished
Very deep – profound
Very depressed – despondent
Very detailed – meticulous
Very different – disparate
Very difficult – arduous
Very dirty – filthy
Very dry – arid
Very dull – tedious

E:

Very eager – keen
Very easy – effortless
Very empty – desolate
Very excited – thrilled
Very exciting – exhilarating
Very expensive – costly

F:

Very fancy – lavish
Very fast – swift
Very fat – obese
Very friendly – amiable
Very frightened – alarmed
Very frightening – terrifying
Very funny – hilarious

G:

Very glad – overjoyed
Very good – excellent
Very great – terrific

H:

Very happy – ecstatic
Very hard – difficult
Very hard-to-find – rare
Very heavy – leaden
Very high – soaring
Very hot – sweltering
Very huge – colossal
Very hungry – ravenous
Very hurt – battered

I:

Very important – crucial
Very intelligent – brilliant
Very interesting – captivating

J:

K:

L:

Very large – huge
Very lazy – indolent
Very little – tiny
Very lively – vivacious
Very long – extensive
Very long-term – enduring
Very loose – slack
Very loud – thunderous
Very loved – adored

M:

Very mean – cruel
Very messy – slovenly

N:

Very neat – immaculate
Very necessary – essential
Very nervous – apprehensive
Very nice – kind
Very noisy – deafening

O:

Very often – frequently
Very old – ancient
Very old-fashioned – archaic
Very open – transparent

P:

Very painful – excruciating
Very pale – ashen
Very perfect – flawless
Very poor – destitute
Very powerful – compelling
Very pretty – beautiful

Q:

Very quick – rapid
Very quiet – hushed

R:

Very rainy – pouring
Very rich – wealthy

S:

Very sad – sorrowful
Very scared – petrified
Very scary – chilling
Very serious – grave
Very sharp – keen
Very shiny – gleaming
Very short – brief
Very shy – timid
Very simple – basic
Very skinny – skeletal
Very slow – sluggish
Very small – petite
Very smart – intelligent
Very smelly – pungent
Very smooth – sleek
Very soft – downy
Very sorry – apologetic
Very special – exceptional
Very strong – forceful
Very stupid – idiotic
Very sure – certain
Very sweet – thoughtful

T:

Very talented – gifted
Very tall – towering
Very tasty – delicious
Very thirsty – parched
Very tight – constricting
Very tiny – minuscule
Very tired – exhausted

U:

Very ugly – hideous
Very unhappy – miserable
Very upset – distraught

V:

W:

Very warm – hot
Very weak – frail
Very well-to-do – wealthy
Very wet – soaked
Very wide – expansive
Very willing – eager
Very windy – blustery
Very wise – sage
Very worried – distressed

X:

Y:

Z:

A/N: If you know of anymore words I can add please message me.

This is very important 😉

chronic-illness-cat:

titleknown:

hueva-york:

la-bufadora:

businessinsider:

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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

Reblogging because I WISH I HAD FUCKING KNOWN ABOUT THIS IN HIGH SCHOOL YEARS AGO!

Dear sick Kitties, 

Please save this to your computer because one day you might be well enough to work in some capacity and it’s unfair for you to have blank spots on your resume/CV. 

You have worth and validity even if you don’t have a huge work history. YOU have value.

winterazalea:

CLASSICAL

The old masters. I tried not to include most opera composers, since singing/lyrics interfere with concentration. Most of these playlists are at least an hour long:

Baroque (prancing through the flowers with royalty):

  • Albinoni
  • Bach
  • Corelli
  • Handel
  • Guerre
  • Purcell
  • Scarlatti
  • Telemann
  • Vivaldi

Classical (sipping tea with royalty while listening to their woes and gossip):

  • Beethoven
  • Haydn
  • Mozart
  • Paganini

Romantic (watching a heartfelt, teary-eyed scene in a soap opera):

  • Berlioz
  • Bizet
  • Borodin
  • Brahms
  • Bruch
  • Bruckner
  • Chopin
  • Dvorak
  • Field
  • Franck
  • Gade
  • Grieg
  • Liszt
  • Mendelssohn
  • Rachmaninov
  • Rimsky-Korsakov
  • Rubenstein
  • Saint-Saëns
  • Schubert
  • Robert Schumann
  • Clara Schumann
  • Smetana
  • Strauss II
  • Tchaikovsky
  • Wagner
  • Weber

Impressionistic (stargazing in an open field at midnight):

  • Debussy
  • Ravel

Late Romantic/Early Modern (dramatically confessing your love in the pouring rain):

  • Albéniz
  • Beach
  • Chaminade
  • de Falla
  • Dukas
  • Elgar
  • Fauré
  • Glazunov
  • Mahler
  • Respighi
  • Satie
  • Sibelius
  • Strauss
  • Vaughan Williams

Modern (these get sub-categories because they’re so different):

  • Emotional and moving
    • Barber
    • Bartok
    • Glass 
    • Holst
    • Ives
    • Kabalevsky
    • Kodaly
    • Poulenc
    • Schoenberg
    • Trimble
  • We’re off on an epic adventure!
    • Copeland
    • Grofe
    • Prokofiev
    • Tailleferre
  • Dramatic theme for every super villain ever
    • Adams
    • Musgrave
    • Shostakovich
    • Stravinsky
    • Tower
  • Curious and off-putting, but hypnotic
    • Cage
    • Higdon 
    • Rodrigo
  • Jazz hands and big city lights
    • Gershwin
    • Joplin
    • Milhaud
    • Still

Long, random playlists: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

Youtube Channels:

  • Classical Music
  • The Spirit of Classical Music
  • TopClassicalMusic
  • naxosorchestral
  • Classical Music11

There’s also playlists on Spotify (just go to Browse > Genres & Moods > Classical).

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CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL

Sometimes the old masters are too stuffy. I get it. Have some more long playlists from a few of my favorite contemporary artists:

Piano

  • Yiruma
  • Michael Nyman
  • Ludovico Einaudi
  • Brian Crain
  • Jim Brickman
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Joe Hisaishi
  • Yann Tiersen

Violin

  • Itzhak Perlman
  • Vanessa Mae Storm
  • Emilie Autumn (electric)
  • David Garrett

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EDM

Maybe you don’t like classical at all. That’s fine, too. Here’s some wub-wub to get your mind on track:

Aggressive & Intense (dubstep, deathstep, metalstep, etc)

  • Long, random playlists: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
  • Youtube Channels:
    • Glitch Mob
    • Excision
    • TheSupremeKronus

Chill & Melodic (chillstep, deep house, melodic dubstep)

  • Long, random playlists: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
  • Youtube Channels:
    • Pulse8Music
    • ChillYourMind
    • Fluidified

Upbeat & Dancy (electro house, club music, more chillstep)

  • Long, random playlists: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
    Youtube Channels:
    • Madeon
    • Paul van Dyk
    • Omnitica

There are countless other Youtube channels and mixes. You can also find some playlists on Spotify (Browse > Genres & Moods > Electronic).

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INSTRUMENTAL COVERS OF POPULAR SONGS

Here are a few channels to check out if you’re starting from nowhere:

Piano

  • Miri Lee 이미리 Pianistmiri –  pop, r&b, rap, some classical, rock, and k-pop
  • David Sides – pop, r&b, rap, some rock
  • oysterlovers – pop, r&b, rap, some classical and rock
  • The Theorist – pop, r&b, and rap
  • TheUnsungHeroine – pop & electronic/dubstep
  • YourPianoCover – mostly pop, a few rap
  • Steve Siu Piano – pop, country, classical, some rock and rap
  • Yoonha85TV – pop, rap, r&b, some k-pop
  • Brooklyn Duo (piano & cello) – pop
  • ThePianoGuys (piano & cello) – pop, r&b, classical, rock

Hour-long, yearly pop playlists by oysterlovers:  2013, 2014

Yearly pop medleys by AlexTanMusic:   2012, 2013, 2014

Violin

  • The Mad Violinist & SCO – pop, r&b, rap, dubstep
  • Lindsey Stirling – pop, r&b, rap, soundtracks, classical
  • Momento – pop & rock
  • Josh Vietti – pop, r&b, rap, rock, classical
  • JuNCurryAhn – pop, k-pop, classical, soundtracks
  • David Wong – pop, r&b, rock, rap
  • Bryson Andres – pop, r&b, rock, electronic
  • JasonYangViolin – pop, rock, rap, soundtracks

Of course, there are countless people who don’t have huge channels and maybe only a cover or two. The search bar is your friend. And don’t forget to make a playlist!

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VIDEO GAME SOUNDTRACKS

Think about it, there are tons of people whose only job is to get the atmosphere of a game right by carefully composing the right music. And there are plenty of games with beautiful music. I love these playlists:

  • Remember Me (brilliant mix of electronic and classical)
  • Papo & Yo (relaxing and tropical)
  • Rayman Origins (springy, lighthearted, and amazing)
  • Rayman Legends (energetic, goofy, and wonderful)
  • Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle (beautiful, bouncy, heart-racing)
  • To The Moon (dreamy and moving)
  • Kingdom Hearts (gorgeous, epic, breathtaking)
  • Mirror’s Edge (soothing and mechanical)
  • Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite (adorable 8-bit)
  • Alice: Madness Returns (odd, creepy, and carnival-esque)
  • Journey (peaceful and atmospheric)
  • Child of Light (melancholic and powerful)
  • Trine (epic and mystical)
  • The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (mysterious and haunting)
  • Valiant Hearts (pretty and heartbreaking)
  • Walking Dead Season 1 (depressing and beautiful)
  • Braid (relaxing, Celtic vibes)
  • Botanicula (breathy, vibrant, playful)
  • Machinarium (earthy, futuristic, energetic)

Long, random playlists:  (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Youtube Channels:

  • VGameOSTs
  • SoundtrackVideoGame
  • Video Game Soundtracks

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MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS

Just like video games, movies rely heavily on music to set the mood for the audience. Here are some of my favorite playlists:

  • Studio Ghibli
    • Spirited Away
    • Howl’s Moving Castle
    • Princess Mononoke
    • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
    • Kiki’s Delivery Service (x)
    • Castle in the Sky
    • My Neighbor Totoro
    • Ponyo
    • Porco Rosso
    • The Wind Rises
    • Grave of the Fireflies
    • random playlists: (1) (2) (3)
  • Classic Disney piano covers (1) (2)
  • Lord of the Rings
    • The Fellowship of the Ring
    • The Two Towers
    • The Return of the King
  • Amelie
  • How to Train Your Dragon
  • How to Train Your Dragon 2
  • Coraline
  • The Secret of Kells
  • The Tale of Princess Kaguya
  • The Piano
  • Schindler’s List
  • Harry Potter
    • Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone
    • Chamber of Secrets
    • Prisoner of Azkaban
    • Goblet of Fire
    • Order of the Phoenix
    • Half-Blood Prince
    • Deathly Hallows pt 1
    • Deathly Hallows pt 2

You can also view a full list of Grammy Award-winning soundtracks here

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ANIME SOUNDTRACKS

You’ll look like weeaboo trash, but at least you’ll be concentrating. You might need to skip a few tracks here and there if they have lyrics (that messes up my concentration, at least). That said, here’s some recommended playlists:

  • Elfen Lied (flowy and pretty)
  • Tokyo Ghoul √A (powerful, electronic, heart-wrenching)
  • Samurai Champloo (funky, hip-hop, soothing, amazing)
  • Hellsing Ultimate (epic, funky, aggressive, but also sad and moving)
  • Death Note (emotional, edgy, rock n’ roll)
  • Attack on Titan (sometimes emotional & harrowing, sometimes epic & gritty)
  • Ghost in the Shell (hollow, lonely, mysterious)
  • Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (gritty, funky, upbeat)
  • Blue Gender (funky, badass, intense)
  • Mnemosyne (jazzy, upbeat)
  • Cowboy Bebop (sometimes smooth jazz, sometimes wild & funky)
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion (more smooth jazz)
  • Fishugi Yuugi (emotional, romantic)
  • Sailor Moon (happy & upbeat)
  • Cardcaptor Sakura (lighthearted, bubbly)
  • Inuyasha (epic, emotional, inspiring)

Long, random playlists: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Youtube Channels:

  • Dolan Zoldhost
  • EpicAnimeRequiem
  • Epic San
  • MrAnimeSoundtrack
  • Erolox OST

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Like I said, this isn’t a complete list but hopefully a good jumping-off point. Feel free to add to areas with your own suggestions. Have fun listening and go be productive!

oh-those-dead-frenchboys:

ischemgeek:

columbiaphoenix:

counting-teacups:

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writing adult emails is awful

its like

hi [name of person], 

this formatting is making me uncomfortable but I have to tell you something / ask you something that is vital to my career as a student. 

I re-read and edited that sentence for an hour, but you’ll probably just glance over it for half a second.

thanks! 

– [name]

k

-professor

I have a stock format and structure I use.

Dear Person I am Writing To:

This is an optional sentence introducing who I am and work for, included if the addressee has never corresponded with me before. The second optional sentence reminds the person where we met, if relevant. This sentence states the purpose of the email.

This optional paragraph describes in more detail what’s needed. This sentence discusses relevant information like how soon an answer is needed, what kind of an answer is needed, and any information that the other person might find useful. If there’s a lot of information, it’s a good idea to separate this paragraph into two or three paragraphs to avoid having a Wall of Text.

If a description paragraph was used, close with a restatement of the initial request, in case the addressee ignored the opening paragraph.

This sentence is just a platitude (usually thanking them for their time) because people think I’m standoffish, unreasonably demanding, or cold if it’s not included.

Closing salutation,

Signature.

People always ask me how I can fire off work emails so quickly. Nobody has figured out yet that it’s the same email with the details changed as needed.

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japanese-revision:

japanese-revision:

Textbooks:

Online and Phone Dictionaries:

For kanji.

Online reading:

Manga.


Improving your speaking:


Listening:


Reading & Writing practice:


News:


Podcasts and radio:

Radio dramas

YouTube:

Japanese sign language.


TV:

Tumblr:

Those who are studying in Japan

2012 – 2013 exchange students

Working as part of the JET Programme

Blogging:


Learning websites:


Other resources:

I’ve added even more to the list since I first posted this and am continuing to add new things to it. So, I thought I’d re-post it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!

nisha-no-nihongo:

Learn Kanji by radicals instead of by strokes

Kanji is made up of parts called radicals. If you learn by strokes you will sometimes have over 15 strokes. But if you learn the radicals, kanji becomes much more simple. Radicals are like building blocks and you only need 2-4 to put together a kanji. But it is still important to know how to write kanji in proper stroke order.

Check out another radical cheat sheet by TextFugu

itsrosewho:

FAMOUS AUTHORS

  • Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
  • The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
  • Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
  • Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.
  • Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
  • Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
  • Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
  • Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
  • The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
  • Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
  • Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
  • Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
  • Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
  • Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

TEXTBOOKS

MATH AND SCIENCE

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

  • byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.
  • Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.
  • International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.
  • Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

PLAYS

  • ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
  • Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.
  • Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”
  • ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

HISTORY AND CULTURE

  • LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.
  • The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.
  • Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.
  • Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.
  • Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

  • Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

  • Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.
  • Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.
  • Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.
  • 2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.
  • Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.
  • Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.
  • Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.
  • Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

MYSTERY

  • MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.
  • TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.
  • Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

POETRY

  • The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.
  • Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”
  • Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.
  • Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.
  • Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.
  • QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.
  • CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.
  • PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

  • Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.
  • World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.
  • DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.
  • A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.
  • Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.
  • ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.
  • Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.
  • Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.