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Collocations

This document lists various collocations, or commonly paired words, that are used to modify adjectives and adverbs to indicate degree or extent. Some of the most common collocating words included are deeply, greatly, fully, bitterly, highly, perfectly, most, seriously, absolutely, totally, utterly, terribly, pretty, really, and quite.

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Collocations

This document lists various collocations, or commonly paired words, that are used to modify adjectives and adverbs to indicate degree or extent. Some of the most common collocating words included are deeply, greatly, fully, bitterly, highly, perfectly, most, seriously, absolutely, totally, utterly, terribly, pretty, really, and quite.

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COLLOCATIONS

DEEPLY
grateful / offended / embarrassed / moved / hurt / wounded (metaphor) / worried / concerned

GREATLY exaggerated / surprised / criticized / different / changed / mistaken / welcome /


disappointed / amused

FULLY

satisfied / -trained (nurse) / dressed / automated / insured / aware / conscious / capable of / equipped cold / disappointed / resentful / criticized / regret (verb)

BITTERLY HIGHLY

amused / skilled / paid / developed / rated / recommended / regarded / thought of / enjoyable / unlikely / trained / qualified / probable / capable / organized / argumentative/ amusing ridiculous / simple / fair/ reasonable / clear / matched / obvious / capable

PERFECTLY
of /

MOST

kind of / amazing / enjoyable / generous / helpful / grateful for / amusing injured / wounded / ill / worried / involved

SERIOUSLY

ABSOLUTELY wonderful/ fantastic/amazing/ brilliant/ perfect/ incredible/ astonishing /


awful/ shattered / fine /

TOTALLY unbearable / different / stunning UTTERLY devastated / crazy/ ridiculous / TERRIBLY lucky/ sorry / worried PRETTY reasonable/ scared / expensive REALLY interesting / amazing / good / nice / QUITE magnificent / expensive / good / small/

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