If you are looking for ways to enliven your writing and speech, this classic collection from Grenville Kleiser provides an abundance of colorful phrases.
You can review these lists when you seek a little extra punch in written works, and you can also use them to develop your vocabulary by identifying, looking up, and learning words you don't know.
This set of useful phrases consists of nouns (occasionally verbs or adjectives) modified by adjectives or adverbs.
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gabbling reminiscences
galling thought
galvanic jumpings
gaping chasm
garbled information
garish decorations
garnered experience
gathering gloom
gaudy embellishments
gaunt specter
general acclamation
generative influence
generic characteristics
generous abundance
genial tolerance
genteel parlance
gentle blandishments
gentlemanly personage
genuine cynicism
geological enigma
geometrical progression
germinal idea
ghastly loneliness
ghostly apparitions
giant height
giddy pleasure
gifted intelligence
gigantic sagacity
girlish sprightliness
gladdening influence
gladiatorial exercise
gladsome glow
glaring impropriety
glassy smoothness
gleaming escutcheon
gleeful spirit
glibly condoned
gliding measures
glimmering idea
glistening dewdrop
glittering epigram
gloomy musing
glorious freedom
glossed faults
glowering countenance
glowing anticipations
gnawing thoughts
godlike independence
golden opportunity
gorgeous splendor
gossiping opinion
governing impulse
graceful demeanor
gracious immunity
graduated sequence
grandiose nomenclature
graphic portrayal
grasping credulity
gratuitous rudeness
grave reticence
greedy grasp
gregarious humanity
grievously mistaken
grim swiftness
grinding despotism
grinning ghosts
griping fascination
grizzled warrior
gross exaggeration
grotesque perversion
groundless fear
groveling servility
growing tension
grudging thanks
grumbling monotone
guileless zeal
gullible humanity
gurgling brooks
gushing enthusiasm
gusty clamor
guttural incoherence
gymnastic agility
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Editor's note: This section of EnhanceMyVocabulary.com is excerpted and adapted from Project Gutenberg's Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases, by Greenville Kleiser.
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