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Mr. Tom Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Nail biting, heart stopping, nerve-rending etc

Hi

Are all these terms natural and correct? Could you offer me one or two more like these?

It was a ________________________ photograph.



Nail-biting


Nerve- rending


skin- crawling


Heart stopping


Bone chilling


Heart- rending


Nerve-racking


Hair-raising


Mind-boggling


Breath- taking


Rock falling





Thanks,

Tom
  

Top answer

Hi Tom: These might work: (horrific) Bone-chilling Hair-raising (scary) Heart-stopping gut-wrenching (impressive) Mind-boggling Breathtaking (this is one word) awe-inspiring (pathetic) tearjerking heartrending (one word) (enlightening) eye-opening Nail-biting and nerve-racking would be used to describe an experience, not a photograph. I have not seen sense-blowing - perhaps you mean mind-blowing? The same goes for rock-falling and skin-crawling.

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  • Hi Tom: These might work: (horrific) Bone-chilling Hair-raising (scary) Heart-stopping gut-wrenching (impressive) Mind-boggling Breathtaking (this is one word) awe-inspiring (pathetic) tearjerking heartrending (one word) (enlightening) eye-opening Nail-biting and nerve-racking would be used to describe an experience, not a photograph.
  • I have not seen sense-blowing - perhaps you mean mind-blowing?
  • The same goes for rock-falling and skin-crawling.
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Hi Tom:
These might work:
(horrific)

Bone-chilling
Hair-raising

(scary)
Heart-stopping
gut-wrenching

(impressive)

Mind-boggling
Breathtaking (this is one word)

awe-inspiring

(pathetic)
tearjerking
heartrending (one word)

(enlightening)

eye-opening


Nail-biting and nerve-racking wo
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