Tone Words Flashcards
Indifferent due to lack of interest or concern
Apathetic
Charging of wrongdoing
Accusatory
Solemn wonder
Awe
Exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief
Bitter
Question the basic sincerity and goodness of people
Cynical
Looking down on
Feeling of superiority
Condescending
Unfeeling
Insensitive to feelings of others
Callous
Studying, reflecting on an issue/character
Contemplative
Finding fault
Critical
Hot tempered; easily angered
Choleric
Showing or feeling that something is worthless
Contemptuous
Stinging, biting; intense use of sarcasm
Caustic
Scornful
Disdainful
Author attempts to educate/instruct/lecture the reader
Didactic
Ridiculing, mocking
Derisive
Intensely sincere
Earnest
Learned, scholarly, polished
Erudite
Using the imagination; light
Fanciful
Directly Frank without hesitation
Forthright
Said, dark, rejected
Gloomy
Proud and vain to the point of arrogance
Haughty
Marked by anger caused by injustice
Indignant
Authoritative and often having a critical opinion
Judgmental
Happy, cheerful
Jovial
Expressing a writers inner feelings; full of imagery
Lyrical
Excepting of conditions; not fanciful or emotional
Matter of fact
Treating with contempt or ridicule
Mocking
Despondent, sullen, surety, gloomy
Morose
Purposely hurtful
Malicious
Having an unbiased view
Objective
Patronizing
Having an air of condescension
Seeing the worst side of things
Pessimistic
Coarse, Vulgar, irreverent
Ribald
Treating a subject/character with honor and respect
Reverent
Sneering, caustic
Sarcastic
Bitter or scornful; mocking
Sardonic
Deeply earnest, Grave
Solemn
Optimistic and cheerful
Sanguine
Having capricious humor
Whimsical