Personality Words- Bluffing Game

Personality words bluffing game

with personality adjective synonyms and opposites

Choose one of the personality words below and tell your partner which you chose. Tell a story to illustrate how that is true about your personality, e.g. “I once shouted at a bus driver for being five minutes late” for “Impatient”. If you can’t think of a real story, you can make one up. Your partners will ask questions to find out more about that story and/ or about that aspect of your personality. They will then try to guess if your story is true, and if you are a… person.

• adaptable/ flexible – unadaptable/ inflexible
• ambitious – unambitious
• amusing/ humorous/ funny – serious
• careful – careless
• confident – nervous
• conservative/ traditional – adventurous/ radical
• creative – uncreative
• direct – indirect/ diplomatic
• dynamic/ a self-starter – passive
• energetic – tired
• friendly – unfriendly
• hard working – lazy
• helpful – unhelpful
• intelligent/ smart – unintelligent
• knowledgeable – ignorant
• moody/ unpredictable
• motivated/ driven – unmotivated
• optimistic – pessimistic
• polite – impolite/ rude
• positive – negative
• practical – impractical
• punctual – unpunctual
• relaxed – stressed
• reliable – unreliable
• shy – outgoing
• sociable – unsociable
• strict – easy-going
• superstitious – unsuperstitious

Ask about any words above which you don’t understand, discussing if that is really your personality and/ or making suitable stories to match that word each time.  

Change groups. Do the same, but this time picking adjectives above for the other person to tell a (true or false) personal story about.

Personality adjectives synonyms and opposites presentation

Without looking above for now, write at least one word in each gaps below.

• adaptable/ flexible – _______________/ ___________________
• ambitious – ___________________
• amusing/ humorous/ funny – __________________
• careful – ______________________
• confident – ______________________
• conservative/ traditional – _________________/ radical
• creative – _________________________
• direct – _______________________/ diplomatic
• _________________/ a self-starter – passive
• _____________ – tired
• friendly – __________________
• hard working – _______________
• helpful – _________________
• intelligent/ _______________ - unintelligent
• ___________________ – ignorant
• moody/ __________________
• motivated/ driven – _____________________
• optimistic – ___________________
• polite – impolite/ _____________
• positive – _______________
• practical – __________________
• punctual – _________________
• relaxed – _________________
• reliable – ___________________
• ______________ – outgoing
• sociable – _______________
• ________________ – easy-going
• superstitious – _________________

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Mixed answers

Put the words below into the right gaps above and use the suffixes to make opposites.

in…/ un…/ …less                                                     adventurous

dynamic                                                                     energetic

knowledgeable                                                         lazy

negative                                                                     nervous

pessimistic                                                                rude

serious                                                         shy

stressed                                                                     strict

unpredictable

Check above. Other answers are possible, so please check if you wrote something different.