Vocabulary - How to write reviews

A person who has had a good education and knows a lot about art, music, literature, etc.

• rational

• cultured

• humorous

• cynical

Short and clear, expressing what needs to be said without unnecessary words

• Bombastic

• Poetic

• Concise

• Verbose

(Of beliefs, theories, etc.) simple and ordinary

• homespun

• figurative

• inexact

• grotesque

If someone or something that they do or say is ________, it is strong and clear, without any possibility for doubt.

• Bombastic

• Involved

• Euphonic

• Emphatic

Made by people, often as a copy of something natural

• abrupt

• graphic

• artificial

• artistic

Willing to accept many different types of behaviour, beliefs, or choices in other people.

• imaginative

• broad-minded

• reactionary

• narrow-minded

Unusual and strange in a way that might be funny or annoying

• orthodox

• clean

• whimsical

• well-read

A person who has the ability to imagine how a country, society, industry, etc. will develop in the future and to plan in a suitable way.

• opinionated

• visionary

• prophetic

• fanatical

Using words in a clever and funny way

• witty

• unsophisticated

• eloquent

• pompous

Not completely certain or convincing.

• colloquial

• concrete

• shallow

• symbolic