Tone & Attitude Words Flashcards
Moderate Happiness & Approval
Easy Words: Appreciative, Approving, Sympathetic, Delighted, Proud, Encouraged, Amused.
Optimistic: Adj. hopeful and confident
Sanguine:Adj. positive
Mirthful: Adj. merry or amusing
Jovial:Adj. cheerful and friendly
Extreme Happiness & Approval
Easy Words: Excited
Reverent:Adj. showing full respect
Awed: Adj, filled with wonder
Magnanimous:Adj. generous or forgiving
Ecstatic:Adj. expressing overwhelming happines
Longing for the Past
Nostalgic: Adj. homesick
Wistful: Adj. regretful longing
Moderate Disagreement, Fear, & Anger
Easy Words: Doubtful, Unconvinced, Dismissive, Fearful, Disbelieving, Argumentative
Skeptical:Adj. not easily convinced
Wary: Adj. showing caution
Critical: Adj. disapproving judgements
Contentious: Adj. causing an argument
Disparaging: Adj. expressing opinion of something with little worth
Extreme Disagreement, Fear, & Anger
Easy Words: Angry, Hostile, Outraged, Accusatory, Furious
Irate: Adj. feeling great anger
Belligerent: Adj. hostile and aggressive
Sullen: Adj. bad-temepered or gloomy
Envious/Resentful: Adj. bitterness
Surly: Adj. bad-tempered and unfriendly
Incredulous: Adj. unwilling or unable to believe something
Moderate Disdain & Arrogance
Disdainful: Adj. showing lack of respect
Scornful: Adj. feeling contempt or derision
Self-Deprecating: Adj. under-valuing oneself
Extreme Disdain & Arrogance
Contemptuous: Adj. showing deep hatred or disapproval
Self-Satisfied: Adj. happy with oneself
Self-Congratulatory: Adj. happy of one’s achievements
Pretentious:Adj. attempting to impress
Pompous: Adj. affectedly or irritatingly grand
Arrogant: Adj. exaggerated sense of one’s importance
Moderate Certainty & Directness
Easy Words: Certain, Decisive, Confessional
Emphatic: Adj. speaking or acting in a forceful way
Vehement: Adj. showing strong feeling
Resolute: Adj. admirably purposeful
Conviction: Adj. a formal declaration or belief
Frank: Adj. open, honest, and direct in speech
Candid: Adj. truthful and straightforward
Moderate Humor, Sarcasm, & Informality Pt 1
Easy Words: Conversational, Humorous, Mocking, Sarcastic
Sardonic: Adj. grimly mocking or cynical
Wry: Adj. expressing dry humor
Ironic: Adj. usually expressing the opposite
Irreverent: Adj. showing a lack of respect of things that are usually taken seriously
Extreme Humor, Sarcasm, & Informality
Cynical: Adj. believing that people are motivated by self-interest
Disillusioned: Adj. disappointed in someone
Frivolous: Adj. not having serious purpose or value
Jeering: Adj. make rude and mocking remarks
Caustic: Adj. sarcastic in a bitter way
Moderate Uncertainty & Confusion
Easy Words: Uncertain, Puzzled, Confused, Hesitant
Ambivalent: Adj. having mixed feelings
Equivocal: Adj. open to more than one interpretation
Extreme Uncertainty & Confusion
Easy Words: Indecisive
Perplexed: Adj. completely baffled
Baffled: Adj. confused
Bewildered: Adj. to be confused
Bemused: Adj. puzzled
Incredulous:Adj. unwilling or unable to believe something
Moderate Objectivity & Neutrality Pt 1
Objective: Adj. not influenced by feelings or opinions
Evenhanded: Adj. not favoring one side or the other
Analytical: Adj. to visualize and think
Neutral: Adj. not helping or supporting either side
Impartial: Adj. treating all rivals equally
Detached: Adj. seperate or disconnected
Extreme Objectivity & Neutrality
Apathetic: Adj. showing or feeling no interest
Indifferent: Adj. having no particular interest
Diffident: Adj. modest or shy
Aloof: Adj. not friendly or forthcoming
Resigned: Adj. having accepted something
unpleasant that one cannot do anything about
Moderate Thinking & Teaching
Pensive: Adj. engaged in deep thought
Reflective: Adj. thoughtful
Didactic: Adj. intended to teach
Scholarly: Adj. involving serious academic study
