When you’re writing, adjectives give you the most flexibility to create a vivid picture. It’s also easy to slip into a cliche series of mundane, familiar adjectives. Describing Words helps inspire you ...

Adjectives are words that describe nouns. They give more detail about a person, place, or thing – such as its colour, size, or how it feels. For example, if you had some beans, you could use ...

This is one of 10 essays I offer as we close 2021 that I hope will help broadcast journalists tell stronger stories in the year ahead. Mark Twain offered some writing advice about adjectives: ...

In eighth grade when I read that Julius Caesar had an aquiline nose, I mistakenly thought it had something to do with water. But aquiline is from Latin aquila, meaning eagle, not aqua, water. He had a ...

A ramble through the different aspects of adjectives – words which add spice to text. Lowdown? Okay, I know! I have used an unbecoming word to encompass a class of words that are by no means sinister ...