Unscramble.net. CCI Greenheart | Cultural Exchange | Host an Exchange Student | J-1 Work Travel | Travel Abroad. Be a volunteer. 100 Exquisite Adjectives. By Mark Nichol Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue.
Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives: Subscribe to Receive our Articles and Exercises via Email You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! Subscribers get access to our exercise archives, writing courses, writing jobs and much more! 21 Responses to “100 Exquisite Adjectives” Rebecca Fantastic list! All Posts. The tree-climbing girl who turns the history of man on its head. The discovery appears to have finally ended the debate over whether this bipedal hominid still continued to climb trees, much like their earlier ape ancestors.
The fossilised shoulder blades and arm sockets belonging to Selam, meaning "peace", indicate that she and her family continued to climb trees like modern apes even though her lower body was perfectly adapted to upright walking. Scientists believe that the upward angle of her arm sockets and ape-like shoulder blades suggest that she was an active tree climber. This means that humanity's earliest ancestors abandoned an arboreal existence far later in our evolutionary history than previously thought. Selam is a remarkably well-preserved specimen of the species Australopithecus afarensis, an important forerunner of the human lineage. The latest study, published in the journal Science, reveals the first complete set of shoulder blades of Australopithecus afarensis.