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  • Writer's pictureSimon MacDonald

Acrostics and Accretion

Updated: Jun 29, 2022

Acrostics are poems formed around the letters of a topic word. I challenged my P6 English class to write an acrostic poem with their name. Easy enough, right? I gave them a list of 100 positive adjectives to choose from. I thought this was an excellent way to get them to use dictionaries, expand their vocabulary and have fun with language. However, the list missed a few letters, and I admit I was stumped when Felix asked me for an adjective beginning with X.

Er, xylophone? Yes, I know it is a noun.

So, I will research and write my my own A to Z of positive adjectives to describe everyone in my P6 English class and what we aspire to be. Here goes:


Amazing

Ambitious

Adaptable

Articulate

Attentive

Artistic

Aspiring

Awesome


 

Balanced

Big-hearted

Brilliant


 

Calm

Canny

Capable

Caring

Charismatic

Charming

Cheerful

Chipper

Clearheaded

Coadjutant

Cognizant

Collected

Competent

Constructive

Courageous

Courteous


 

Dashing

Dazzling

Decent

Decisive

Dedicated

Delightful

Determined

Dynamic


 

Eager

Earnest

Effective

Efficient

Elegant

Eloquent

Energizing

Excellent

Expressive


 

Fabulous

Fantastic

Focused

Foresighted

Friendly


 

Good-natured

Gumptious


 

Hard-working

Harmonious

Helpful

High-spirited

Humble


 

Imaginative

Impressive

Inquisitive

Intelligent

Inventive


 

Jaunty

Jestful

Jolly


 

Keen

Kind-hearted

Knowledgeable


 

Leonine

Likeable

Lively

Lucent

Lucid


 

Magnificent

Majestic

Marvelous

Masterful

Meaningful

Mellow

Memorable

Meritorious

Meteoric

Methodical

Meticulous

Mettlesome

Motivated

Multifaceted


 

Neat

Neighborly

Nifty

Noble

Noetic


 

Observant

Olympian

Open-minded

Optimistic

Organized

Out-of-this-world

Outgoing

Outstanding


 

Passionate

Patient

Perceptive

Persistent

Persuasive

Phenomenal

Pioneering

Playful

Pleasant

Poised

Polite

Positive

Powerful

Proactive

Productive

Promising

Propitious

Puissant

Pukka

Punctilious

Punctual

Purposeful


 

Quick-witted

Quirky

 

Refulgent

Reliable

Remarkable

Resilient

Resourceful

Respectable

Respectful


 

Sagacious

Salient

Sanguine

Sapient

Savvy

Shrewd

Sincere

Skillful

Sociable

Sophisticated

Spectacular

Splendid

Splendiferous

Strong

Successful

Super

Super-duper

Superb


 

Talented

Tasteful

Tenacious

Thoughtful

Timely

Tiptop

Trailblazing

Tremendous

Triumphant


 

Unassuming

Understanding

Unfaltering

Unflappable


 

Venturesome

Virtuous

Visionary

Vocal

Voracious


 

Warm-hearted

Weleful

Well-disposed

Well-intentioned

Well-spoken

Wholesome

Wide-awake

Wise

Witty

Wonderful

Worthy


 

Xenial

Xenodochial


 

Young

Youthful


 

Zappy

Zealous

 







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