Tone Words Flashcards

(69 cards)

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Senile

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Having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age

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Accusatory

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Indicating or suggesting that one believes a person has done something wrong

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Capricious

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Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior

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Frenzied

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Wildly excited or uncontrolled

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Disdainful

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Showing contempt or lack of respect

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Indignant

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

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Erudite

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Having or showing great knowledge or learning

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Disgruntled

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Angry or dissatisfied

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Whimsical

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Playfully quaint or fanciful especially in an appealing and amusing way

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Doleful

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To express sorrow

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Coquettish

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Behaving in such a way as to suggest a playful sexual attraction or flirtatious

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Haughty

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Arrogantly superior and disdainful

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Agog

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To be very eager or curious to hear or see something

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Circumspect

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To be wary and unwilling to take risks

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Candid

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Truthful and straightforward

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Jocular

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To be humorous or playful or to be characterized by joking

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Belligerent

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To be hostile and aggressive

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Macabre

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Disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with our depiction of death or injury

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Grim

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Forbidding or uninviting

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Audacious

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Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks

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Strident

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To be loud and harsh

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Nostalgic

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Characterized by or exhibiting feelings of nostalgia (very sentimental person)

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Urbane

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Suave courteous and refined and manner (polite”

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Elegiac

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Having a mournful quality (especially with art)

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Lugubrious
Looking or sounding sad and dismal
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Effusive
Expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure, or approval
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Maudlin
Being self pitiful through drunkenness
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Pompous
To be irritating the grand salon or self important
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Didactic
Do you intend to teach particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive
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Bombastic
High sounding, but with little meaning
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Enigmatic
To be difficult to interpret or understand (mysterious)
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Irate
Feeling very angry
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Apathetic
Show and are feeling no interest enthusiasm or concern
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Contemptuous
To feel that a person or thing is the beneath consideration is worthless or deserves scorn
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Bellicose
Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight
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Foreboding
To have the feeling that something bad is going to happen or to be nervous
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Forlorn
Pitifully sad and abanding or lonely
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Facetious
To treat very serious issues with inappropriate humor
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Poignant
Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret
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Somber
To be dark or dull in color/gloomy
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Ominous
Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen/being suspicious
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Bizarre
Very strange or unusual
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Sinister
Getting the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen
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Covetous
Having or showing great desire to possess something especially when it is someone else’s
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Garrulous
Excessively talkative especially on trivial matters
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Serene
To be calm, peaceful, and untroubled
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Vehement
To show a strong feeling; or to be forceful, passionate, or intense
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Anguished
To express severe mental or physical pain or suffering
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Neurotic
To be extremely stressed or to be very anxious
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Perturbed
To be anxious, settled or upset
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Demonstrative
Someone who tends to show feelings, especially of affection
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Equitable
Fair and impartial
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Flippant
Not sure was serious or respectful attitude
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Bewildered
To lose one’s way
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Malevolent
Having or showing a wish to do evil to others
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Zealous
To have great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective
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Wonky
To be crooked or off-center
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Pensive
To be engaged in serious thought
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Listless
A person who lacks energy or enthusiasm
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Cantankerous
To be bad tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative
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Postal
Done through the mail
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Querulous
Complaining and a petulant or whining matter
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Addled
To be unable to think clearly or to be confused
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Solemn
Be formal or in dignified
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Farouche
To be shy in company
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Ebullient
To be cheerful and full of energy
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Dogmatic
To be inclined to lay down principles or laws as incontrovertibly true (not able to be denied)
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Exuberant
To be filled with our characterized by a lively energy and excitement
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Parsimonious
To be unwilling to spend money or to be stingy or frugal