形容詞にveryを使って「とても」と言い表したいときは多いですよね。でも、アカデミックライティングの世界では
very / really / so は厳禁とされます。
ですから、”very angry” は、例えば、”furious”とかで書かないといけません。
いつもveryとかsoとかを使いまくっている人は要注意です。ご自分が中級レベル（英検準1級ぐらい）になったとき、大学でレポートを書かなければいけないとき、自分の書いたものを見直して、その3つの単語（very/ really/ so)があったときは、必ず違う単語に言い換えましょう。
今まで集めた物を書いておきます：
- very afraid fearful
- very angry furious/ indignant/ enraged
- very bad awful/ horrendous
- very big immense/ massive/ gigantic/ enormous
- very beautiful exquisite
- very calm serene
- very careful cautious
- very certain confident
- very clean spotless
- very clever intelligent/ brilliant
- very cold frigid
- very creative innovative
- very cute adorable
- very confused perplexed
- very crowded bustling/ cramped/ jam-packed
- very deep profound
- very dirty squalid
- very excited thrilled
- very fast quick
- very fat obese
- very friendly amiable
- very funny hilarious
- very glad overjoyed
- very good superb
- very happy jubilant/ overjoyed/ ecstatic
- very important crucial
- very intelligent brilliant
- very interesting fascinating
- very large colossal
- very little tiny
- very long extensive
- very loud thunderous
- very necessary essential
- very nervous apprehensive
- very nice kind
- very noisy deafening
- very often frequently
- very old ancient
- very open transparent
- very painful excruciating
- very perfect flawless
- very poor destitute
- very powerful compelling
- very quick rapid
- very quiet hushed/ silent
- very rich wealthy/ well-off/ prosperous
- very rude vulgar
- very sad sorrow
- very scary chilling
- very serious grave
- very sharp keen
- very short brief
- very simple basic
- very slow sluggish
- very small petite
- very shy timid
- very sorry apologetic
- very strong unyielding
- very stupid idiotic
- very tall towering
- very tasty delicious
- very tired exhausted
- very ugly hideous
- very valuable precious
- very well-to-do wealthy
- very wet soaked
- very wise sage
- very worried distressed
いかかでしたか？初めて見る単語も多く含まれているかもしれませんね。少しずつで良いのでvery/ really/ soを失くす努力をして上級レベルへ登っていきましょう！
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