Shades of colours General adjectives to describe a person

Different shades of : Positive things ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ ~ - ★ Elated - happy ● Vermillion ★ Saccharine - excessively sweet in emotion ● Cherry ★ Beatific - blissful happiness ★ Rapturous - enthusiastic ● ★ Euphoric - extremely happy ● Sanguine ★ Amicable - friendly / good natured Dark - ★ Munificent - generous ● ★ Voracious - very eager / enthusiastic ● Wine ★ Winsome - attractive/pleasing in an innocent light ● Garnet ★ Sage - wise ★ Stalwart - loyal and reliable Different shades of : ★ Hedonistic - self-indulgent Light - ★ Convivial - kind ★ Venerable - acclaimed; having borne a copious ● Honey amount of respect/wisdom ● ★ Eminent - famous/respected ● ★ Prudent - showing great care for the future ● Sallow (an unhealthy shade) ★ Demure - (usually for women) modest/shy Dark - ★ Seraphic - angelic ● Medallion ● Dijon Stuck up/superior/powerful/evil, etc: ● Haughty - arrogantly superior Different shades of : ● Puissant - powerful/potent ● Vindictive - showing unreasoning desire for Light - revenge ● Parakeet ● Supercilious - feeling superior to others ● Emerald ● Disdainful - lack of respect ● Fern ● Cynical ● Forest-green ● Callous - unsympathetic Dark - ● Apathetic - showing no interest/emotion ● Juniper ● Philistine - being hostile to culture/the arts ● Seaweed ● Perilous - dangerous ● Pine ● Vehement - strong feelings/passion (can be either negative or positive) ● Sage ● Impolitic - opposite of prudent

● Dissentious - quarrelsome Different shades of : ● Heinous - very wicked Light - ● Thin: ● ● Cadaverous - very thin, pale and bony (negative) ● ● Lissom - thin/graceful (positive) ● ● Lithe - Thin and graceful (positive)

● Ocean Stupid / lazy : Dark - ● Asinine - extremely stupid ● Spruce ● Lackadaisical: lacking enthusiasm / being lazy ● Cobalt ● Benighted - morally/intellectually ignorant ● Myopic - lacking intellectual insight ●

Angry: Different shades of : ● Livid - furiously angry Light: ● Sad: ● ● Plaintive - sounding sad/mournful ● Heather ● Morose - sullen and ill-tempered ● Amethyst ● Periwrinkle Talkative: ● Loquacious - talks a lot Dark:

● Fluent / graceful: ● Boysenberry ● Voluble - fluent ● ● Eloquent - gracefully articulate ● Sangria Strong: Different shades of : ● Virile - having/being characterised by Light: strength/energy ● Rose ● Herculean - muscular and strong (or something that requires a lot of strength) ● Rouge

● Dirty/poor: ● ● Cadaverous Dark: ● Uncouth - lacking in good manners ● Rosewood ● Slovenly - untidy + dirty ● Fuschia ● Brusque - rough manner ● Destitute - poor Different shades of : ● Heathenish - barbarous ● Hoary - greyish white Obedient: ● Alabaster - ● Docile - willing/submissive/obedient whiteness/smoothness ● Obsequious - obedient ● Pearl ● Porcelain Smart: ● Parchment ● Erudite - showing great knowledge

Afraid: ● Trepidation - anxiety/fear ● Consternation - trepidation

Random nouns I’ve learned

Words to use when writing about ● Tempest - violent/windy storm (the adjective is a rich/grand setting tempestuous which also means conflicting/strong emotion) ● Sumptuous - splendid and ● Purport - purpose ● Plaint - an accusation/complaint expensive looking ● Harlot - a prostitute ● Deft - neat/skillful handywork ● Hearth - fireplace ● Hearth ● Oeuvre - all the works of an artist/painter / ● Eloquent composer ● Hedonistic ● Staccato - a series of short, sharp sounds/words ● Meticulous - showing great ● Affinity - natural liking to something detail to something ● Repose - sleep ● Decadent - luxuriously ● Hansom - low, two wheeled vehicle drawn by one self-indulgent horse ● Collieries - a coal mine ● Elocution - the skill of clear ● Throng - a lot of people and expressive speech ● Grandeur - the state of being grand ● Gentility - respectability / high ● Physiognomy - outward appearance of someone social status ● Caprice - unpredicted / sudden change ● Venerable ● Panegyric - formal praise ● Epicure - a person who finds ● Pall - cloth that spreads over a tomb pleasure in fine food/drink ● Manacles - restrictment / shackles ● Grandiose - extravagantly ● Despot - king/ruler with absolute power grand and luxurious ● Sojourn - temporary stay ● Compendium - collection of detailed information ● Unctuous - excessively about a subject flattering; oily ● Stipend - fixed pay/salary ● Alabaster ● Confidant - someone you trust ● Aphorism - pithy observation that contains the Example paragraph I wrote using truth most of these words: One glance ● Vivisection - sharp and detailed criticism/analysis around the room, deftly painted with ● Ribands - a ribbon fine shades of alabaster, her azure ● Conclave - a private meeting eyes had borne the sight of a fellow ● Maladies - a serious problem/a disease ● Dahlia - a brightly-coloured, mexican plant epicure - whose onyx- hair may ● Fodder - coarse food for livestock have been a tad too unctuous for her ● Raiment - attire / clothing - whose lithe posture was eloquently ● Gauntlet - a glove with an extended cuff for the standing by the decadent hearth. wrist "My, what a grandiose place you ● Renunciations - the act of abandoning something have here...I take it that your form of ● Aplomb - self-confidence or assurance in an awful hedonism belongs here?" She spoke situation with a flare of elocution and made ● Frisson - strong feeling of fear/excitement; thrill her way to the sumptuous table that ● Camaraderie - mutual trust + understanding between friends was lavishly furnished with an ● Gusto - hearty/keen enjoyment of something assemblage of meticulous cakes - ● Larceny - robbery

ranging from a gold-speckled apple ● Expletive - swear words pie to a simple, but deft slice of ● Prurience - restless desire or longing chocolate cake that percolated a rich sauce. Adjectives for objects/other For fabric:

● Gauzy - thin and translucent Good verbs to use ● Diaphanous - light, delicate and translucent

Describing liquids: For weather/the atmosphere: ● Bedewed - covered/sprinkled ● Arid - dry; little to no rain (can also mean no with droplets of excitement) ● Percolate - (coffee being ● Tenebrous - gloomy/dark atmosphere prepared) but mainly to ● Tempestuous describe something being ● Sombre - gloomily dark/serious or depressing (can be used on place, colours, moods) oozed/trickled/seeped

● Permeate - spread For red complexion/someone blushing: throughout something ● Ruddy - fresh/healthy red complexion ● Fluctuate - something going ● Florid - red or flushed complexion up and down ● Undulating - smooth For flowers/plants: wave-like motion (usually for ● Tremulous - shaking or quivering slightly (can be the ocean) used for people too e.g, “oscar became tremulous at the sight of the spider”) (but in this context it’d be like, “the flowers were tremulous”) Telling off someone: ● Strewed - scattered (good for petals - “lavender ● Chastise - tell off petals were strewed across the…” ● Castigate - criticize/severely ● Sedate - calm and quiet/dull critic ● Disparage - speak little of someone ● Berate - castigate ● Deride - ridicule/ mock something

Influence someone: ● Coax - attempt to influence ● Cajole - coax someone with flattery

For essays: ● Divagate - digress in speech ● Encompass - include something comprehensively ● Vivisect

● Kenned - to understand/perceive ● Germane - relevant to a subject ● Aforementioned - ‘as mentioned before’ ● Pedagogical - relating to teaching ● Procured - obtained ● Elucidate - make something clear ● Substantiate - prove evidence to support something ● Permeate ● Betoken - be a sign of something ● Adumbrate - foreshadow something ● Instigate - begin something