Vocabulary Video Winners: Adjectives

My jaw fell slack and my mouth was agape. New York Times (Sep 24, 2018)

Now, though, France is looking to accelerate its fight against climate change, and energy hungry heaters are increasingly seen as anachronistic. New York Times (Jul 28, 2020)

Milman is a lean, athletic woman, originally from Brazil, with warm caramel skin and an aquiline nose. New York Times (May 4, 2011)

On the morning I visited, it was chaotic and cacophonous. The New Yorker (Apr 16, 2019)

Adults often dismiss teenagers, assuming that they’re callow, apathetic or uninformed. New York Times (Aug 23, 2017)

On Saturday the dexterous Hubbard Street dancers looked very good throughout “Untouched.” New York Times (May 20, 2013)

Both sides promised a quick victory before settling into a ghastly stalemate. New York Times (Nov 10, 2018)

Elsa cut through Cuba on Monday, bringing gusty winds, torrential rains, flooding, electrical outages and some property damage. New York Times (Jul 7, 2021)

He’s not nearly enough, though, to rescue an indolent script with only a handful of funny lines and a seeming confusion over its target audience. - - New York Times (April 9, 2021)

The sadness I felt was matched by a macabre desire to learn that his death was a violent one. New York Times (Sep 28, 2019)

Punctuated by an innocuous yet mellifluous jingle, the advertisements left an indelible impression on countless New Yorkers who watched local television in the 1980s and 1990s. New York Times (Feb 1, 2019)

Many owls are nocturnal and some are crepuscular, which means your best chances of seeing them are at times when you’d most likely be indoors, either sleeping or getting ready to. New York Times (Feb 4, 2021)

It’s all part of the attentive but not obsequious customer focus you’ll find at the restaurant. New York Times (Sep 19, 2010)

Leif Mannerstrom, who owns and cooks at this charming former warehouse of the Swedish East India Company, built on the waterfront in 1775, is so widely admired for his knowledge of things piscatorial that he is pictured on a national postage stamp, and more than 10,000 people come from all over Scandinavia each year for his Christmas-season feast of 16 herrings. – New York Times (Oct 22, 2006)

The idea that you can lock two people’s love once and for all, and toss the key, is a puerile fantasy. - New York Times (Aug 18, 2012)

But Mr. LePage’s pugnacious personality spurred support for a referendum in 2016 to switch to a method that required the winner to obtain a majority. New York Times (Jun 11, 2018)

Now, businesses like hers are threatened, as well as the sartorial choices of millions of Kenyans who depend on low-cost imports to stay stylish. New York Times (Jul 9, 2020)

Perhaps humans weren’t meant to become quite so ingrained in a Sisyphean cycle of use, abuse and overuse, whether in a four-bedroom house or a 700-square-foot apartment. New York Times (Apr 28, 2021)

“All first editions are delivered to both” the palace and the prime minister’s residence, making a late-night dash to buy the paper superfluous. New York Times (Nov 26, 2020)