Sorrow/Fear/Worry Tone Flashcards

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Agitated

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excited; disturbed.

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Aggravated

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to make worse or more severe; intensify, as anything evil, disorderly, or troublesome: to aggravate a grievance; to aggravate an illness.

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Anxious

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full of mental distress or uneasiness because of fear of danger or misfortune; greatly worried; solicitous: Her parents were anxious about her poor health.

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Apologetic

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containing an apology or excuse for a fault, failure, insult, injury, etc.: An apologetic letter to his creditors explained the delay.

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Apprehensive

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uneasy or fearful about something that might happen: apprehensive for the safety of the mountain climbers.

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Concerned

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troubled or anxious: a concerned look.

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Confused

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to perplex or bewilder: The flood of questions confused me.

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dejected

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depressed in spirits; disheartened; low-spirited: The dejected expression on the face of the loser spoiled my victory.

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Depressed

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sad and gloomy; dejected; downcast.

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Despairing

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loss of hope; hopelessness.

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Disturbed

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marked by symptoms of mental illness: a disturbed personality.

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Embarrassed

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to cause confusion and shame to; make uncomfortably self-conscious; disconcert; abash: His bad table manners embarrassed her.

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Fearful

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causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.

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Foreboding

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an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.

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Gloomy

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dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.

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Grave

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serious or solemn; sober: a grave person; grave thoughts.

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Hollow

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insincere or false: hollow compliments.

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Hopeless

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without hope; despairing: hopeless grief.

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Horrific

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an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.

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Horror

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an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.

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Lugubrious

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mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.

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Melancholy

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a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.

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Miserable

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wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.

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Morose

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gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.

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Mournful
to feel or express sorrow or grief
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Nervous
highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
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Numb
incapable of action or of feeling emotion; enervated; prostrate: numb with grief.
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Ominous
portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
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Paranoid
of, like, or suffering from paranoia.
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Pessimistic
pertaining to or characterized by pessimism; gloomy: a pessimistic outlook.
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Pitiful
evoking or deserving contempt by smallness, poor quality, etc.: pitiful attempts.
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Poignant
affecting or moving the emotions: a poignant scene.
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Regretful
to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment, etc.): He no sooner spoke than he regretted it.
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Remorseful
deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction
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Resigned
submissive or acquiescent.
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Sad
Sad
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Serious
of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
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Sober
Not intoxicated or drunk
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Solemn
grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood: solemn remarks.
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Somber
gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
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Staid
of settled or sedate character; not flighty or capricious.
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Upset
to disturb mentally or emotionally; perturb: The incident upset her.