English Tone Words

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Apathetic

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Showing or felling no interest

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Assured

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Confident

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Audacious

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Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks

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bilious

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Affected / associated with nausea or vomiting

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Blithe

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Casual & cheerful indifference- considered to be callous or improper

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Bombastic

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High sounding but with little meaning

E.g Kester

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Cantankerous

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Bad - tempered, argumentative and uncooperative

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Caustic

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Sarcastic in a scathing bitter way

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Contemptuous

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Scornful

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Contentious

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Causing or likely to cause argument

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Doleful

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Expressing sorrow

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Dour

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Relentlessly sever, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance

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Elegiac

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Wistfully mournful

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Facetious

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Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant

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Frenetic

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Fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way

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Galvanize

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Shock or excite into taking action

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Gregarious

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Fond of company; sociable

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Illusory

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Based on illusion; not real

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Impish

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Inclined to do slightly naughty things for fun; mischievous

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Laconic

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Using very few words

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Macabre

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Disturbing because concerned with or causing a fear of death

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Nihilistic

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Rejecting all religious and moral principles in belief that life is meaningless

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Obsequious

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Obedient or attentive to an excessive servile degree

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Opprobrious

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Expressing scorn or criticism

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Panegyrics

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A public speech or published text in praise of someone or something

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Pedantic

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Excessively concerned with minor details or rules

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Penitent

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Feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong

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Phlegmatic

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Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition

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Poignant

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Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

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Pretencious

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Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed

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Prosaic

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Unromantic

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Provocative

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Causing anger or another strong reaction, especially deliberately

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Querulous

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Complaining in a whining manner

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Quotidian

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Occurring every day; daily

Mundane

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Ribald

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Referring to sexual matters in an amusingly course or irreverent way

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Rancorous

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Characterised by bitterness or resentment

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Saccharine

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Excessively sweet or sentimental

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Salacious

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having or conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters.

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Superficial

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Existing or occurring at or on the surface

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Tautological

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Useless restatement

E.g. speedy sprint

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Tempestuous

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Characterised by strong turbulent emotions

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Tortuous

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Full of twists and turns

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Truculent

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Eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant

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Vehement

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Showing strong feeling
Forceful
Passionate
Intense

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Vitriolic

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Filled with bitter criticism or malice

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Wanton

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(of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked.

Question 47

Whimsical

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