B2 · C 2 · C1 · Media, arts, literature & entertainment · Vocabulary B2/C1/C2 Adjectives for describing films and books 19 March, 202028 December, 2022 blogdeserena Created by blogdeserena B2-C1-C2 VOCABULARY QUIZ FOR DESCRIBING BOOKS AND FILMS Read choose the word Activity by Serena very upsetting, wrong, or immoral outstanding shocking belonging to the present time contemporary realistic actually happening in life, not invented in a book real-life realistic a type of entertainment that helps you forget about bad or boring things for a short time escapist gory overrated is... very modern not as good as some people tend to think a mediocre book is ... not very good depressing if a book has been abridged it... has been made shorter has become very popular showing things as they really are realistic real-life having a strong effect on your feelings, especially one that makes you feel sad lurid moving a riveting film is ... very interesting cheap and badly made a faithful account tells you about ... how things happened a religious experience relating to art, literature, music etc. romantic cultural a blue movie is related to... violence sex interesting and enjoyable entertaining gripping a high-brow book is typically ... very rude or offensive very serious and difficult to understan making you feel sad depressing dull a film or book that contains a lot of violence violent shocking excellent and impressive shocking outstanding moves or develops quickly pacy lurid if you consider that a document was very wordy, you think that ... it is easy to understand it uses too many words not interesting or exciting depressing dull a gory movie involves ... a lot of blood and violence sex an unbeat film makes you ... cheerful and and feeling that good depressed related to love dull romantic a new wave film is about ... punk culture new ideas if something is far-fetched it's ... about a time that is very remote difficult to believe defamatory content intends to... make people have a bad opinion of something or someone in an untrue or unfair way criticizes someone or something in a strong and effective way racy writing is typically ... very serious and difficult to understand exciting and entertaining and often about sex a hard-hitting serial ... shows lot of blood and violence criticizes someone or something in a strong and effective way want to watch it because you find it very interesting entertaining gripping shocking and violent in a way that is deliberate lurid pacy if you consider a film filthy you think it's ... very rude or offensive cheap if a serial shows you the gritty realism it... shows you the unpleasant reality of something gives you an unrealistic account of life a potted account of something is ... short and simple tightly controlled a page-turner novel is ... so bad you turn the pages over as quickly as you can in order to finish it very good. So good you can't stop reading a thought-provoking book makes you ... think deeply about something cheerful and and feeling that good things will happen having a sharp exciting quality edgy poignant Your score is LinkedIn Facebook Twitter VKontakte share thisTwitterFacebookWhatsAppLike this:Like Loading... Related share thisTwitterFacebookWhatsAppLike this:Like Loading...