Tone Words

Question 1

Apprehensive

Answer 1

Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

Question 2

Bewildered

Answer 2

Cause (someone) to become perplexed and confused

Question 3

Brusque

Answer 3

Abrupt or offhand in speech or manner.

Question 4

Candid

Answer 4

Truthful and straightforward; frank.

Question 5

Choleric

Answer 5

Bad-tempered or irritable.

Question 6

Compassionate

Answer 6

Feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others.

Question 7

Conciliatory

Answer 7

Intended or likely to placate or pacify.

Question 8

Contentious

Answer 8

Causing or likely to cause an argument.

Question 9

Cynical

Answer 9

Believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.

Question 10

Derisive

Answer 10

Expressing contempt of ridicule.

Question 11

Derogatory

Answer 11

Showing a critical or disrespectful attitude.

Question 12

Desolate

Answer 12

Deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness.

Question 13

Diabolic

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Belonging to or so evil as to recall the Devil.

Question 14

Ebullient

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Cheerful and full of energy.

Question 15

Effusive

Answer 15

expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner.

Question 16

Elated

Answer 16

Make (someone) ecstatically happy.

Question 17

Empathetic

Answer 17

Someone who can share another persons feelings.

Question 18

Euphoric

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Characterized by or feeling intense excitement and happiness.

Question 19

Fatalistic

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Someone who believes outcomes are determined in advanced and can’t be changed.

Question 20

Fervent

Answer 20

Having or displaying a passionate intensity.

Question 21

Foreboding

Answer 21

Fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen.

Question 22

Grim

Answer 22

Forbidding or uninviting.

Question 23

Gushy

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Excessively effusive

Question 24

Haughty

Answer 24

Arrogantly superior and disdainful.

Question 25

Holier-than-thou

Answer 25

Characterized by an attitude of moral superiority.

Question 26

Incredulous

Answer 26

(of a person or their manner) unwilling or unable to believe something.

Question 27

Indignant

Answer 27

Feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment.

Question 28

Introspective

Answer 28

Characterized by or given to introspection.

Question 29

Jocund

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Cheerful and lighthearted.

Question 30

Lethargic

Answer 30

Sluggish and apathetic.

Question 31

Lugubrious

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Looking or sounding sad and dismal.

Question 32

Melancholy

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A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

Question 33

Mirthfu

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Full or mirth; merry or amusing.

Question 34

Ominous

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Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious.

Question 35

Optimistic

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Hopeful and confident about the future.

Question 36

Pedantic

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Of or like a pedant.

Question 37

Pensive

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Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.

Question 38

Pithy

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Concise and forcefully expressive.

Question 39

Reticent

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not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily.

Question 40

Sanguine

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optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situation.

Question 41

Sardonic

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Grimly mocking or cynical.

Question 42

Solemn

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Formal and dignified.

Question 43

Terse

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Sparing in the use of words; abrupt.

Question 44

Timorous

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showing or suffering from nervousness, fear, or a lack of confidence.

Question 45

Vitriolic

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Filled with bitter criticism or malice.

Question 46

Whimsical

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playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way.

Question 47

Reticent

Answer 47

Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily.

Question 48

Zealous

Answer 48

Having or sowing zeal.

Question 49

Ambivalent

Answer 49

Having mixed feelings about someone or something.