TASTE VOCABULARY

Bitter: having a sharp, pungent taste or smell; not sweet

Sentence: raw berries have an intensely bitter flavour

Flavor: the distinctive taste of a food or drink

Sentence: They sell 20 different flavors of ice cream

Sour: has an acid taste like lemon or vinegar.

Sentence: She sampled the wine and found it was sour”

Savory: full of flavor, delicious and tasty

Sentence: I could not stop eating the savory soup

Acidulous: sour or sharp in taste:

Sentence: The acidulous drink burned my tongue..

Briny: of salty water or the sea; salty.

Sentence: The cheese often produces a flavour-rich briny liquid.

Insipid: lacking taste or flavor or tang

Sentence: airline food used to be bland and insipid

Nectarous: extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant

Sentence: The nectarous flavors of the exotic spices tantalized his taste buds.

Luscious: extremely pleasing to the sense of taste

Sentence: I bought a luscious, chocolate-covered cake

Pungent: having a sharply strong taste or smell

Sentence: “I could smell the pungent flavours coming from the kitchen