Tone Words 1-24 Flashcards

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Apathetic

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Indifferent due to lack of energy or concern

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Accusatory

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Charging of wrong doing

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Awe

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Solemn wonder

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Bitter

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Exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief

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Cynical

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Questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people

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Condescension; condescending

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A feeling of superiority

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Callous

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Unfeeling, insensitive to feelings of others

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Contemplative

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Studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue

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Critical

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Finding fault

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Choleric

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Hot tempered, easily angered

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Contemptuous

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Showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks respect

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Caustic

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Intense use of sarcasm, stinging, biting

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Conventional

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Lacking spontaneity, originality and individuality

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Disdainful

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Scornful

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Didactic

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Author attempts to educate or instruct the reader

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Derisive

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Ridiculing, mocking

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Earnest

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Intense, a sincere state of mind

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Erudite

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Learned, polished, scholarly

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Fanciful

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Using the imagination

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Forthright

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Directly frank without hesitation

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Gloomy

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Darkness, sadness, rejection

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Haughty

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Proud and vain to the point of arrogance

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Indignant

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Marked by anger aroused by injustice

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Intimate

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Very familiar