Tone Vocabulary Flashcards by Emmaline Hall

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Lugubrious

A

Looking or sounding sad

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Objective

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not influenced by a person’s feelings/opinions

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Amusing

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Causing laughter, providing entertainment

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Patronizing

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Talking down (purposely)

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Exhortative

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Giving urgent advice

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Caustic

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Severely critical or sarcastic

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Imperial

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Majestic, magnificent

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Ironic

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Happening in the opposite way to what is expected

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Bemused

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Puzzled, confused

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Cynical

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Believing the worst in human nature and motives

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Nostalgic

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A sentimental longing for the past

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Dogmatic

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Opinionated in an arrogant manor

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Ambivalence

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Uncertainty

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Churlish

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Rude in a mean-spirited and surly way

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Droll

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Conical in an odd or whimsical manor

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Didactic

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Intended to teach or instruct

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Condescending

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Speaking down to another (empathetic)

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Insolent

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Showing rude and arrogant lack of respect

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Facetious

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Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor

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Antipathy

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A feeling of intense dislike, aversion