Words to describe Tone Flashcards

(58 cards)

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Positive

Amiable

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Pleasent / Friendly

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Appreciative

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Showing that you understand how good something is, or being grateful for something.

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Benevolent

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Kind / Helpful

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Brave

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Showing no fear

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Calm

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Peaceful & Quiet

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Cheerful

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Happy & Positive

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Compassionate

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Showing strong feelings of sympathy and sadness for the suffering of bad luck of others and the desire to help them.

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Confident

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The quality of being certain of your abilities / having trust in people, plans, or the future.

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Dreamy

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Seeming to be in a dream and not paying attention to what is happening around you.

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Content

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Pleased with your situation and not hoping for change or improvement.

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Ecstatic

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Extremely happy

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Encouraging

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Making you feel confident or hopeful.

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Energetic

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Having or involving a lot of energy

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Hopeful

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Something good that you want to happen in the future.

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Joyful

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Very happy

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Light-hearted

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Happy and not serious

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Jubilant

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Feeling or expressing great happiness, especially because of succes.

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Optimistic

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Always believing that good things will happen

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Passionate

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Having very strong feelings or emotions

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Peaceful

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Quiet & Calm

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Playful

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Funny and not serious

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Relaxed

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Feeling happy and comfortable because nothing is worrying you.

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Reverent

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To greatly respect or admire something or someone

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Soothing

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Reducing anger or sadness.

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# positive Surprised
Feeling or showing surprise because something had happened that you did not expect.
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# positive Sympathetic
Agreeing with someone / supporting
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# positive Vibrant
Energetic, exciting, and ful of enthusiasm.
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# Negative Accusing
Stating that someone has done something morally wrong.
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# Negative Agitated
Upset / Nervous; as if the writer feels anxious
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# Negative Angry
Having a strong feeling against someone who has behaved badly, making you want to shout at them or hurt them.
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# Negative Arrogant
Unpleasently proud and behaving as if the writer is more important than other people.
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# Negative Authoratitive
Seeming to have an ability to control.
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# Negative Bitter
Describes an experience that causes deep pain or anger.
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# Negative Callous
Unkind or cruel. Without sympathy or feeling for other people.
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# Negative Childish
If an adult is childisch, they behave badly in a way they would be expected to be a child.
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# Negative Cold
Not showing affection, kindness, or emotion, and not being friendly.
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# Negative Condemning
Express dissaproval
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# Negative Condescending
Showing attitude of patrionizing superiotity
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# Negative Critical
Giving opinions or judgements on books, plays, films, etc.
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# Negative Curt
Short, with few words as possible - rude.
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# Negative Dissapointed
Unhappy because someone or something was not as good as you had hoped / expected. Or because something did not happen.
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# Negative Haughty
Unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than others.
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# Negative Harsh
Overly critical and unpleasant language
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# Negative Holier-than-thou
Attitude of moral superiority
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# Negative Inflammatory
Intent to stir up emotions or invoke physical reaction.
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# Negative Insulting
Making an offensive remark or action.
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# Negative Irritated
Annoyed
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# Negative Manipulatitive
Someone who is trying to control other people to their advantage.
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# Negative Obnoxious
Very unpleasent / Rude
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# Negative Outraged
A feeling of anger and shock
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# Negative Passive
Not acting to influence or change a situation.
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# Negative Quarrelsome
Repeatedly arguing with other people.
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# Negative Self-deprecating
Trying to make yourself, your abilities, or your achievements seem less important.
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# Negative Shameful
Deserving blame, or being a reason for feeling ashamed.
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# Negative Straightforward | (Not particulary negative)
Easy to understand or simple / Honest and not tending to hide opinions.
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# Negative Superficial
Never thinking about things that are serious or important. Or, lacking details; shallow.
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# Negative Tired
To be bored with something or someone; lack of energy.
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# Negative Uninteresested
Not interested