This document provides a workbook activity to help students practice using descriptive adjectives when introducing themselves. It includes lists of adjectives describing appearance, personality, feelings, shape, size, time, quantity, sound, taste, touch, and color. Students are instructed to choose adjectives that describe themselves and their families/friends/interests and provide an example to clarify the meaning. The goal is to help students feel more comfortable describing themselves using descriptive words.

1. WorkbookActivity:
Students often find themselves at a loss of words when they need to introduce
themselves to the interviewer. Trainers often get the query around the vocabulary
enhancement. Howeverthe more important thing to remember here is, that more
than the knowledge of the word it is the usage that creates the impact. The
followingactivity is designed to bridge the gap between knowledge and usage.
Listed below you wouldfind wordsthat describe the characteristic traits of
personality. Refer to the dictionary forthe meanings of these words. For further
clarification,if required, consult the trainer. Once clear with the meaning, try and
associate these wordswith your ownpersonality. Try and use as many words as
possible. While describing your characteristic traits by the help of these words, cite
an example to further clarify the meaning. For example:
“I believeI am suitableforthisjobbecauseI am prudent”.
Meaningofthe word:Wise/Far-sighted.
Clarification: “My profileincludedinteractionwiththecustomers,duringmy
last industrial training.So Itookan innovativeapproachanddecidedalong
with the otherexecutivesto wear a smileybatch. Thisdidn’tonlymakethe
officeenvironmentpleasantforthecustomers,but also made it lessstressful
forthe employees.“
It is encouraged that students use as many words as possible. They could choose to
use the same list of words to describe their family members, friends, relatives,
movies, role models, favorite companies, places, et al.
Descriptive Adjectives List
List of Descriptive Adjectives
DescribingAppearance
List of Descriptive Adjectives
DescribingPersonality
List of Descriptive Adjectives
DescribingFeelings
Adorable Aggressive Afraid
Attractive Ambitious Angry
Alluring Amused Anxious
Beautiful Brave Bad
Bew ildered Bright Bored
Confident Cruel Calm
Cheerful Combative Confused
Cultured Co-operative Comfortable
Clumsy Cow ardly Creepy
Drab Dangerous Depressed
Dull Diligent Disturbed
Dynamic Determined Dominating

2. Disillusioned Disagreeable Deceitful
Elegant Evil Envious
Fair Frank Faithful
Filthy Fearless Fine
Gentle Generous Good
Glamorous Gifted Grieving
Handsome Helpful Horrible
Homely Harmonious Happy
Hurt Hesitant Hungry
Ill-mannered Instinctive Ill
Jolly Jealous Jovial
Kind-hearted Know ledgeable Kind
Lovely Loner Lively
Magnificent Mysterious Mature
Nervous Naughty Nice
Pleasant Pleasing Proud
Perfect Placid Peaceful
Plucky Punctual Protective
Smiling Successful Sorrow ful
Splendid Sedate Silly
Self-assured Sincere Sombre
Snobbish Selfish Sore
Thoughtful Talented Tired
Tense Thrifty Troubled
Timid Truculent Testy
Upset Unbiased Unw ell
Vivacious Voracious Vengeful
Wonderful Witty Wicked
Worried Wise Weary
Wild Warm Wrong
Zaftig Zany Zestful
eg- What an adorable baby! eg- He w as a brave knight. eg- She w as in a jovial mood.
Follow ing is a list of descriptive adjectives that describe shape, sound, size, time and quantity.
List of Descriptive
Adjectives Describing
Shape
List of Descriptive
Adjectives Describing
Size
List of Descriptive
Adjectives Describing
Time
List of Descriptive
Adjectives Describing
Quantity
Broad Big Ancient Abundant
Crooked Colossal Annual Bountiful
Circular Great Brief Cumbersome
Distorted Gigantic Early Empty
Flat Huge Fast Extra
Hollow Large Late Few

3. Narrow Miniature Modern Heavy
Round Mammoth Old Myriad
Square Petite Rapid Many
Skinny Tall Sw ift Multiple
Steep Thin Slow Numerous
Wide Tiny Young Substantial
eg- A skinnyboy eg- A miniature train
eg- An ancient
manuscript
eg- Myriad stars
The follow ing descriptive adjectiveslist qualify nouns related to sound, taste, touch and color.
List of Descriptive
Adjectives Describing
Sound
List of Descriptive
Adjectives Describing
Taste
List of Descriptive
Adjectives Describing
Touch
List of Descriptive
Adjectives Describing
Color
Blaring Bitter Hard Azure
Cooing Delicious Loose Aqua
Deafening Fresh Rough Blue
Loud Hot Smooth Black
Melancholic Icy Slippery Crimson
Noisy Juicy Sticky Cyan
Soft Spicy Sharp Gold
Shrill Sw eet Scattered Green
Squeaking Sour Soft Magenta
Silent Salty Tender Orange
Thundering Tasty Uneven Pink
Whispering Tasteless Wet Turquoise
eg- Blaring loudspeaker eg- Delicious pastry eg- Rough surface eg- Green diamond