Mac - Adverb and Adjective Collocations

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• I'm deadly serious!

• I'm wildly optimistic!

• I'm hopelessly wrong!

He never wins any contests...

• He's desperately unlucky.

• He's wildly optimistic.

• He's hopelessly wrong.

He can't understand math. Whenever he does an exercise,...

• he's always hopelessly wrong.

• he's simply unacceptable.

• he's vaguely familiar.

She doesn't know how to tell jokes, but this one was...

• mildly amusing.

• painfully slow.

• patently obvious.

We're always late when he's driving...

• he's painfully slow.

• he's simply unacceptable.

• he's desperately unlucky.

Everybody approves of what he's been doing.

• It's patently obvious that he will win the elections.

• It's simply unacceptable that he will win the elections.

• It's vaguely familiar that he will win the elections.

Her explaination for not doing her writing task is...

• simply unacceptable

• wildly optimistic.

• desperately unlucky.

I'm not sure if I have met him before, but...

• his face looks vaguely familiar.

• his face looks deadly serious.

• his face looks mildly amusing.

Absolutely nothing in this world is able to disappoint him.

• He's wildly optimistic.

• He's desperately unlucky.

• He's patently obvious.

Their chances of winning the championship are...

• perfectly reasonable.

• deadly reasonable.

• simply unacceptable.