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Vocabulary for-book-reviews
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VOCABULARY FOR WRITING REVIEWS
The Author
Cultured, intellectual, well-read, erudite.
Sage, sensible, rational.
Philosophic, analytical, imaginative, perspective, visionary, prophetic.
Optimistic, broad-minded, idealistic, religious, orthodox, sympathetic.
Sophisticated, unsophisticated.
Original, clever, witty, humorous, whimsical.
Conservative, progressive, radical, reactionary, unprejudiced, realistic, romantic.
Uncultured, unintellectual, shallow, superficial.
Bigoted, opinionated, intolerant, critical, fanatical.
Provincial, narrow-minded, pessimistic, cynical, egotistical, sentimental.
General
Lucid, graphic, intelligible.
Explicit, precise, exact.
Concise, succinct, condensed, pithy.
Poetic, plain, simple. homely, pure.
Vigorous, forceful, eloquent, fluent, clean, clear.
Natural, restrained.
Smooth, polished, classical, artistic.
Bombastic, extravagant, pompous, grandiose, obscure, vague.
Diffuse, verbose.
Ungraceful, harsh, abrupt, awkward, unpolished, crude, vulgar.
Formal, artificial.
The Diction
Precise, exact, concrete.
Plain, simple, homespun.
Learned, cultured, literal, figurative.
Connotative, symbolic, picturesque, sensuous.
Literary, provincial, colloquial, slangy.
Inexact, non-specific.
Bombastic, trite, artificial, obscure, grotesque, vulgar.
The Sentences
Loose, periodic, balanced, antithetical.
Long, short.
Euphonic, rhythmical.
Forceful, emphatic.
Varied.
Ungrammatical, un-unified, incoherent.
Involved, rambling, awkward, jerky.
Cacophonic.
Monotonous, dull.