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Personality Types # Continued

We already have talked about some personality types.
WHAT WE TALKED?
But do you think they are the only ones? Well, surely no. there are many individuals and then there are many different kinds of personalities.

I AM NEITHER INTROVERT NOR EXTROVERT
Sometimes, I behave as an introvert, the other times like an extrovert. Rather, it all depends on the situation. Who are you? You are like most of the people. You are an AMBIVERT.
I HATE PEOPLE
You dislike most of the things, embitter them and are suspicious of them. Rather, you hate everyone. You believe humans can never be perfect and most of them are stupid. If you are like this, you are a MISANTHROPE.
WOMEN ARE NO GOOD.
May be you have been hurt in the past by a woman. Or you have grown up amongst people with this attitude. No matter you just hate women. Who are you? You are a MISOGYNIST.
MARRIAGE IS A COMPROMISE
You have no issues with relationships, but marriage as an institution, you hate it. You believe that commitment must come from heart and not because of any pressure. You are a MISOGAMIST.
SIMPLE LIVING AND HIGH THINKING
The simplest food can keep you happy. You are far away from earthly pleasure and look towards spiritual perfection. You are an ASCETIC

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Go Set A Watchman

Exactly 100 pages into Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman, the illusions of Jean Louise Finch and several generations of idealists are shattered when, arranging her father’s pile of reading material on a visit home from New York, Jean Louise discovers a pamphlet called “The Black Plague.” She picks it up, reads it all the way through, then takes it “by one of its corners … like she would hold a dead rat by the tail” and throws it in the garbage.
“Jean Louise,” her aunt says, in response to her indignation. “I don’t think you fully realize what’s been going on down here.”
It’s an awakening that’s not so much rude as cruel: Maycomb County, Alabama, is now a different world from the one she grew up in, and To Kill a Mockingbird’s Atticus Finch, the paragon of the legal profession, the father figure and steward of the nation’s conscience, is revealed to be frail and flawed. He is, at 72, a rheumatic and unrepentant segregationist who believes with complete conviction that the white race is superior. “Jean Louise, have you ever considered that you can’t have a set of backward people living among people advanced in one civilization and have a social Arcadia?” he asks late in the book, to her horror. “Do you want Negroes by the carload in the our schools and churches and theaters? Do you want them in our world?”
The article has been taken from “The New Yorker ”.

VOCABULARY EXPLAINED

ILLUSIONS
Illusion is something that deceives by producing a false or misleading projection of something. “illusion of … are shattered” means what they thought it to be, it has turned out to be something else.
IDEALIST
Idealist here refers to the writers who treat subject imaginatively. So when the illusion of idealist are shattered, it means that the picture they had imagined is not true.
PAMPHLET
Pamphlet is a complete publication of about 80 pages stitched together and having a cover.
INDIGNATION
Indignation is a strong displeasure at something considered wrong or offensive. So, herein her aunt responds to her behavior of displeasure.
PARAGON
Paragon refers to someone of exceptional merit. So, “paragon of legal profession” means someone who is excellent in the legal profession.
STEWARD
Steward, here means a person who is in charge of something. “so steward of national conscience is a person responsible for the national conscience”.
CONSCIENCE
Conscience refers to the inner sense of what is right and what is wrong. “the national conscience” means what according to the nation as a whole is right or wrong!
FRAIL
Frail, here means, morally weak and easily tempted. In this context, it means that the person who was responsible for the nation’s conscience was himself morally weak.
FLAWED
Flawed is used to refer to someone who has imperfections.
RHEUMATIC
Rheumatic is a person with the disorder of the extremities or back, causing pain.
UNREPENTANT
Unrepentant is a person who shows no shame about his/ her actions.
SEGREGATIONIST
Segregationist is a person who supports the separation of the people depending on their caste, gender etc.
CONVICTION
Conviction here means strong opinion or belief. Here it means that the person had a strong belief that white race is superior.
CARLOAD
Carload refers to the number of people a car is carrying or it can carry. “Do you want Negroes by the carload in the our schools and churches and theaters?” means that do you as many Negros in the school as the car can carry.

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Imperative Sentence

Imperative sentences are the ones that are used to make a command, request or express a desire. An imperative sentence can either be simple, compound or complex. Some of the simplest sentences in English are the imperative sentences.

For example-:

  • Stop!
  • Go!

Note: don’t get confused as to why I have used an exclamation mark if it is an imperative sentence!An imperative sentence can either end with a period or an exclamation mark depending on the strength of the emotion.
Examples Of Imperative Sentence

  • Shut the door!
  • Can I have your pen, please.
  • Just do it.

Note: an imperative sentence need not to necessarily have a please while making a request; however, you can add it if you want.
WHERE IS THE SUBJECT
You must be wondering where is the subject in imperative sentences. Well, an imperative sentence always has a subject and it is “YOU”.
[you] open the door.
[you] please, give me your notebook.

Imperative Verbs

Imperative sentences contain verbs in the imperative form. This means that the verb is used to either make a command or request or desire. These verbs can be used as objects in other sentences.
For example-:

  1. TALK politely.
    You are not allowed to talk here.
  2. TURN off the radio.
    We took a wrong turn and got late for the show.

Imperative sentences can even be used in academic papers and are often used to increase depth in your writing.

Grammar Rules For Imperative Sentence
  1. We can make imperative sentences with bare infinitives (without to).
    For Example-:
    Be strong.
    Let him go.
    You dare not touch it.

  2. When making negative imperative sentences use don’t or do not.
    For Example-:
    Don’t mess with the teachers.
    Do not enter into the room without knocking.

  3. The name of the person can be written in an imperative sentence, but that is usually at the end of the sentence.
    For example-:
    Please pass me the book, Nitika.

  4. If you are talking to more than one person use the pronoun “you” to make a distinction.
    For example-:
    You park the car and you come along with me.
    You wait here while I’ll send them off.

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Describing Personality # Vocabulary For IELTS

We mostly interact with humans and everyone has some specific characteristics which decides their personality. Who they are? Is the answer the words given below tell about a person.

What is in it for me?
The people who don’t give a damn about what others have to say or what others opinions are. The ones for whom if their selfishness, greed or desired hurt others they really don’t give a damn.
Such people are called EGOIST
The world revolves around me
A: You now I just bought a phone.
B: great! Akhilesh is planning to go America!
A: So, what. You know I have a bungalow there. Have even been on five world tours.
B: wow! I think I must read this book.
A: This one, oh I have read it so many times!!
Who is this other guy, who talks of himself/herself and no one else? He /she is an EGOTIST.
I am there for you.
A: Oh god! What am I going to do here?
B: don’t worry I will help you.
A: but I also have to do this and then than.
B: no, problem. I am there for you.
Who is this second person? He/she is an ALTRUIST.
What do they think of me?
Did I said the right things? How can he have so many friends, I can’t even tolerate one friend for a long time. I like living alone.
Who is this person? He/she is an INTROVERT. They are too shy to be social and often prefer doing work alone than together.
Let us do it.
Are you the life of the party? Do you have many friends and do you like to interact with different people? Are you always on high spirits? Are you the one who never worries about his/her actions?
Who are you?
You are an EXTROVERT.

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