Tone Words

Question 1

Apprehensive

Answer 1

Fearing something bad will happen

Question 2

Brusque

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Abrupt/offhand in speech or matter

Blunt

Question 3

Candid

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Truthful and straightforward

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Choleric

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Bad tempered or irritable

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Conciliatory

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Likely to placate

Make someone less angry/hostile

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Derisive

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Expressing contempt or ridicule

Question 7

Contentious

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Likely to start an argument

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Ambivalent

Answer 8

Having mixed feelings about someone or something

Question 9

Zealous

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Great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an object

Question 10

Wistful

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Having or showing a feeling of vague regretful longing

Question 11

Vitriolic

Answer 11

Filled with bitter criticism

Question 12

Timorous

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Showing or suffering from fear, nervousness, or lack of confidence

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Terse

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Abrupt

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Sardonic

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Grimly mocking or cynical

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Sanguine

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Optimistic/ positive especially in bad situations

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Reticent

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Not revealing ones thoughts or feelings readily

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Pithy

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Concise and forcefully expressive

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Pensive

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Engaged in deep serious thoughts

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Pedantic

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Overly concerned with minor details

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Ominous

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Portending evil or harm, threatening

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Mirthful

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Joyous and jolly

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Melancholy

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A gloomy state of mind

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Lugubrious

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Mournful and gloomy in an exaggerated or unrelieved manner

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Lethargic

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Drowsy and sluggish

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Jocund

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Cheerful and merry

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Introspective

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Observation of ones own mental or emotional state

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Indignant

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Feeling or expressing displeasure towards something considered unjust or offensive

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Incredulous

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Not willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without evidence

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Incisive

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Remarkably clear and direct, sharp, keen, acute

Question 30

Holier-than-thou

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Obnoxiously having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations

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Haughty

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Disdainfully proud, snobbish

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Foreboding

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Strong inner feeling of what could happen in the future

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Fervent

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Having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm

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Fatalistic

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The acceptance of all things and events as inevitable

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Euphoric

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Feeling intense excitement or happiness

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Elated

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Make someone ecstatically happy

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Ebullient

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Cheerful or full of energy

Question 38

Derogatory

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Showing disrespectful attitude