Tone Words Flashcards

(39 cards)

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Indifferent due to lack of interest or concern

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Apathetic

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Charging of wrongdoing

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Accusatory

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Solemn wonder

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Awe

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Exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief

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Bitter

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Question the basic sincerity and goodness of people

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Cynical

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Looking down on

Feeling of superiority

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Condescending

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Unfeeling

Insensitive to feelings of others

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Callous

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Studying, reflecting on an issue/character

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Contemplative

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Finding fault

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Critical

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Hot tempered; easily angered

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Choleric

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Showing or feeling that something is worthless

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Contemptuous

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Stinging, biting; intense use of sarcasm

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Caustic

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Scornful

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Disdainful

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Author attempts to educate/instruct/lecture the reader

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Didactic

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Ridiculing, mocking

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Derisive

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Intensely sincere

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Learned, scholarly, polished

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Using the imagination; light

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Directly Frank without hesitation

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Said, dark, rejected

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Proud and vain to the point of arrogance

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Marked by anger caused by injustice

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Authoritative and often having a critical opinion

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Happy, cheerful

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Expressing a writers inner feelings; full of imagery
Lyrical
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Excepting of conditions; not fanciful or emotional
Matter of fact
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Treating with contempt or ridicule
Mocking
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Despondent, sullen, surety, gloomy
Morose
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Purposely hurtful
Malicious
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Having an unbiased view
Objective
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Patronizing
Having an air of condescension
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Seeing the worst side of things
Pessimistic
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Coarse, Vulgar, irreverent
Ribald
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Treating a subject/character with honor and respect
Reverent
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Sneering, caustic
Sarcastic
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Bitter or scornful; mocking
Sardonic
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Deeply earnest, Grave
Solemn
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Optimistic and cheerful
Sanguine
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Having capricious humor
Whimsical