revealing

re‧veal‧ing

1 a remark or event that is revealing shows you something interesting or surprising about a situation or someone's character:

a revealing insight into her life

2 revealing clothes allow parts of your body to be seen which are usually kept covered [↪ low-cut]:

a very revealing dress

—revealingly adverb

One part of my outfit is physically revealing.

depict

de‧pict [transitive] formal

to describe something or someone in writing or speech, or to show them in a painting, picture etc:

a book depicting life in pre-revolutionary Russia

depict somebody/something as something

The god is depicted as a bird with a human head.

—depiction noun [uncountable and countable]

Her letters depict the situation as wonderful.

intimate

in‧ti‧mate

1

restaurant/meal/place

private and friendly so that you feel comfortable:

the intimate atmosphere of a country pub

an intimate meal for two

The collection has been moved from its intimate setting to the British Museum.

2

friends

having an extremely close friendship:

an intimate friend of Picasso's

an intimate relationship

She's on intimate terms with people in government.

3

 intimate knowledge of something

very detailed knowledge of something as a result of careful study or a lot of experience:

his intimate knowledge of the coal industry

4

private

relating to very private or personal matters:

the publication of intimate details of their affair

5

sex

formal

a) relating to sex:

The virus can only be transmitted through intimate contact.

b) 

be intimate with somebody

to have sex with someone

6

 intimate link/connection etc

a very close connection between two things:

the intimate connection between physical and mental health

—intimately adverb:

The two aspects are intimately connected.

I am intimately acquainted with the state of my bank account.

I have an intimate acquaintance with him.

apprehensive

ap‧pre‧hen‧sive

worried or nervous about something that you are going to do, or about the future

apprehensive about/of

We'd been a little apprehensive about their visit.

apprehensive that

I was apprehensive that something would go wrong.

Some had apprehensive looks on their faces.

—apprehensively adverb:

'What's wrong?' I asked apprehensively.

There is no need to be apprehensive of him.

haphazard

hap‧haz‧ard

happening or done in a way that is not planned or organized

a haphazard way/manner/fashion

I continued my studies in a rather haphazard way.

Educational provision in the country is haphazard.

—haphazardly adverb:

bushes growing haphazardly here and there

My approach to the problem was haphazard.

simplistic

sim‧plis‧tic

treating difficult subjects in a way that is too simple:

This is a very simplistic approach to the problem.

—simplistically adverb

His advice sounded simplistic-but it worked

appraise

ap‧praise [transitive]

1 formal to officially judge how successful, effective, or valuable something is [= evaluate]:

Greenpeace has been invited to appraise the environmental costs of such an operation.

2 literary to look carefully at someone or something to make an opinion about them:

His eyes appraised her face.

This draft was appraised as original.