Monday, 24 November 2014

SC: Creating a news broadcast



Character description help!


Physique
gangling; gaunt; haggard; lanky; scrawny; skinny; spindly; withered / agile; athletic; lean; lithe; petite; rangy; reedlike; slender; slight; slim; thin; trim; willowy / barrel-chested; beefy; big-boned; brawny; buxom; chubby; fat; muscular; well-muscled; voluptuous; stocky

Skin Colour
apricot; black; bronze; brown; caramel; cream; ebony; fair; ivory; lily-white; milky; nut-brown; olive; red; white; yellow;

Complexion
Appearance - blush; flush; freckled; glowing; jaundiced; mottled; pallid; pale; pasty; rosy; ruddy; russet; sallow; splotchy;
Texture - acned; cadaverous; craggy; greasy; leathery; peeling; pitted; pocked; scarred; sunburnt; wrinkled

Hair colour
Black - coal black; jet black; raven; sable; ebony; charcoal; ink-black; sooty;
Dark Brown - brunet/te (male/female - male form rarely used); auburn; chestnut; chestnut brown; walnut;
Light Brown - ash brown; mousey; chocolate; sandy; tawny; golden brown; nutmeg; nut brown; cinnamon;
Red - fiery red; ginger; rusty; rust red; redhead; honey red; reddish brown; russet; copper; burnt sienna;
Blonde- ash blonde; strawberry blonde; platinum blonde; flaxen; honey-coloured; towheaded; light blonde; yellow-brown; fair-haired; champagne; tawny-gold; golden-haired; yellow-haired;
White - grey; silver; hoary; hoaryhead; snow-white; silver-grey;
Hair style
Afro; beehive; bob; braids; bun; coiffure; corkscrew curls; curls; crew cut; dreadlocks; French braid; mohawk; page boy; pigtails; pompadour; ponytail; shorn; skinhead; topknot; wedge / crop; fringe; locks; ringlets; strands; wisps;
Hair condition
disarrayed; disheveled; ill-kempt; knotted; messed up; messy; mussed up; mussy; uncombed; unkempt; ragged; ruffled; shaggy; tangled; tousled; twisted; untidy; matted / combed; kempt; neat; neatly combed; thick; thinning; tidy; / greasy; oily / dry; split-ended / flecked; grizzled; wiry; receding; unshorn


Facial Hair
beard; bristles; five o'clock shadow; fuzz; goatee; moustache; muttonchops; sideburns; stubble; whiskers

Eye colour
Blue - bright blue; dark blue; light blue; luminous blue; piercing blue; sky blue;
Brown - dark brown; light brown;
Green - emerald; jade; light green; dark green; bright green; sea green;
Grey - light grey; dark grey; deep grey; stone; stone grey; cobalt; slate grey;
Hazel - light hazel;

Lips - blue; cracked; dry; fat; full; luscious; parched; parted; red; ruby; thin; wet

Teeth - buck; crooked; gap-toothed; gappy; gleaming; large; protruding; razor-like; small; sharp; shining; straight; white; yellow;

Nose - aquiline; beaky; broad; bulbous; button; button-like; curved; eagle-like; hatchet-like; hooked; prominent; straight; turned up;

Arms - long; thick; skinny; pudgy; strong; muscular

Shoulders - broad; ox-like; sloping; drooping; hunched; rounded;

Hands - elegant; long; long-fingered; rough; stubby; shovel-like; slender; spade-like

Fingernails - bitten; broken; claw-like; dirty; hooked; long; painted; sharp; talon-like;

Voice
bass; bellowing; booming; breathy; cackling; childlike; croaking; crackling; drawling; droning; falsetto; faltering; feeble; flat; fluting; gravel; guttural; harsh; hoarse; hollow; husky; hypnotic; lilting; lisping; monotone; nasal; piercing; ponderous; purring; quavering; rasping; reedy; resonant; robust; sensuous; sharp; shrill; soothing; soporific; spluttering; squawking; squeaky; sultry; thick; thin; throaty; thunderous; tremulous; velvet; warbling; wheezing; whining;

Facial
bewildered; disbelieving; disgust; frown; puzzled; nonplussed; scowl; smile;
Visual

blank look; gaze; glance; glaring; glowering; hard stare; piercing; sideways glance; vague; vacuous; vacant; searching; empty;

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