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Tone Words 2 Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Wistful

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Melancholy, longing, yearning

Pensive especially in a melancholy way

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Sanguine

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Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident about what is to come
Anticipating the best

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Lighthearted

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Not being burdened by worry, trouble, or care

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Nostalgic

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Desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life

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Matter-of-fact

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Adhering strictly to fact
not imaginative
Direct or unemotional

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Foreboding

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To foretell or predict of a future misfortune or evil

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Disdain

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Feeling or displaying an attitude of superiority and dislike

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