Tone Words Flashcards

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Indifferent due to lack of interest or concern

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Apathetic

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Charging of wrongdoing

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Accusatory

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Solemn wonder

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Awe

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Exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief

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Bitter

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Question the basic sincerity and goodness of people

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Cynical

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Looking down on

Feeling of superiority

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Condescending

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Unfeeling

Insensitive to feelings of others

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Callous

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Studying, reflecting on an issue/character

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Contemplative

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Finding fault

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Critical

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Hot tempered; easily angered

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Choleric

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Showing or feeling that something is worthless

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Contemptuous

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Stinging, biting; intense use of sarcasm

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Caustic

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Scornful

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Disdainful

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Author attempts to educate/instruct/lecture the reader

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Didactic

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Ridiculing, mocking

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Derisive

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Intensely sincere

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Earnest

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Learned, scholarly, polished

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Erudite

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Using the imagination; light

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Fanciful

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Directly Frank without hesitation

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Forthright

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Said, dark, rejected

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Gloomy

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Proud and vain to the point of arrogance

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Haughty

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Marked by anger caused by injustice

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Indignant

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Authoritative and often having a critical opinion

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Judgmental

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Happy, cheerful

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Jovial

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Expressing a writers inner feelings; full of imagery

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Lyrical

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Excepting of conditions; not fanciful or emotional

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Matter of fact

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Treating with contempt or ridicule

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Mocking

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Despondent, sullen, surety, gloomy

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Morose

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Purposely hurtful

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Malicious

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Having an unbiased view

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Objective

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Patronizing

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Having an air of condescension

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Seeing the worst side of things

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Pessimistic

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Coarse, Vulgar, irreverent

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Ribald

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Treating a subject/character with honor and respect

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Reverent

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Sneering, caustic

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Sarcastic

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Bitter or scornful; mocking

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Sardonic

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Deeply earnest, Grave

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Solemn

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Optimistic and cheerful

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Sanguine

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Having capricious humor

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Whimsical