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Adjectives from names

Learning English Vocabulary

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What Are Dickensian Adjectives From Famous People?

Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest novelist of Victorian England. Many of his books describe the poverty of that time. So what do we mean by Dickensian social conditions? Now which two adjectives came from names of famous people in a clip?

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