Arsenio’s ESL Podcast: Season 4 – Episode 110 – Vocabulary – Compound Adjectives – Parts of The Body

There’s nothing like compound adjectives! Here are some more, and some are hyphenated; others are not. Be careful how to use them, as well as some great speaking in the podcast!

1. Soul-
2. Heart-
3. Heart
4. Hair-
5. break
6. ear-
7. eye-
8. nail-
9. eye-
10. mind-

a blowing

b raising

c warming

d biting

e stopping

f destroying

g opening

h catching

i splitting

j neck

• making you feel happy, usually because other people are being kind
• attractive or unusual and therefore noticed
• used to describe a situation that makes you very unhappy because you think it will never improve
• used to describe a situation that makes you very excited, worried, or tense
• extremely impressive, exciting or shocking (informal)
• very frightening
• very frightening, but often exciting at the same time
• very fast, at ____________ speed
• used to describe a situation that shows you something surprising that you didn’t know before
• very loud

Have you ever traveled at break________speed? When?

Have you ever witnessed a ___________warming scene? What happened?

What’s the most ___________-splitting sound you’ve ever heard?

What’s the most __________-raising thing you’ve ever done?

What’s the most ___________-blowing film you’ve ever seen?

What’s the most ___________-biting sports even that you’ve seen?

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