Tone Words

Question 0

Ardent

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Intense feeling, passionate, intensely devoted, eager, fierce

Question 1

Acerbic

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Harsh or severe

Question 2

Austere

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Severe in manner or appearance, uncompromising, strict, forbidding, limited, self-disciplined

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Brusque

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Abrupt in manner, blunt, rough

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Candid

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Frank, outspoken, open, sincere, free from disguise, straightforward, honest

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Caustic

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Capable of burning, severely critical, sarcastic, bitter

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Choleric

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Extremely irritable, easily angered, touchy, impatient

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Clinical

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Extremely objective and realistic, unemotionally critical

Question 8

Conciliatory

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To overcome the distrust or animosity of, to regain friendship by pleasant behavior, to make or attempt to make compatible, reconcile

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Condescending

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Showing or implying patronizing descent from dignity or superiority

Question 10

Contemptuous

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Showing or expressing contempt, showing disrespect, arrogant, sneering

Question 11

Cynical

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Distrusting or disparaging the motives of others, showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty, pessimistic, sarcastic, bitterly distrustful, contemptuous

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Derisive

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Contemptuous, mocking, expressing ridicule, causing or deserving scorn

Question 13

Detached

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Non-attached, separated, disinterested, not involved or concerned, impartial or objective

Question 14

Didactic

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Intended for instructions, to teach or lecture others

Question 15

Ebullient

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Overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement, high-spirited

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Effusive

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Unduly demonstrative, lacking reserve, unrestrained in emotional expression, gushy

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Erudite

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Learned, polished, scholarly

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Facetious

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Playfully jocular, humorous, not meant to be taken seriously or literally, lacking serious intent

Question 19

Fervent

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Having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, glowing, passionate

Question 20

Grave

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Serious, momentous or important, threatening a seriously bad outcome, involving serious issues, critical

Question 21

Haughty

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Disdainfully proud, snobbish, scornfully arrogant, contemptuous

Question 22

Incredulous

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Indicating or showing unbelief, skeptical

Question 23

Indignant

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Feeling, characterized by or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, infuriated, mad, angry

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Inflammatory

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Tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion

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Insolent

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Boldly rude or disrespectful, insulting, contemptuous

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Irreverent

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Irreligious, profane, lack of reverence, disrespect, critical of what is generally accepted

Question 27

Jovial

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Full of joy, glad, delighted, jubilant, happy

Question 28

Laudatory

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Containing or expressing praise, complimentary, commendatory

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Lugubrious

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Mournful, dismal, gloomy, in affected or exaggerated unrelieved manner, sorrowful, meloncholy

Question 30

Moralistic

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Displaying a concern with morality, narrow and conventionally moral

Question 31

Morose

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Gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, moody, sour, sulky, meloncholy

Question 32

Nostalgic

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A wistful desire to return in thought to a former time in one's life, sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time

Question 33

Patronizing

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Displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner, behave in offensively condescending manner

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Pedantic

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Overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching, narrow concern for book learning and formal rules

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Rancorous

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Bitter, long lasting resentment

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Reverent

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Feeling or exhibiting reverence, deeply respectful, feeling or showing respect

Question 37

Sanguine/sanguineous

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Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, confident, cheerful enthusiasm, animated, lively, spirited

Question 38

Sardonic

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Bitter or scornful derision, mocking, cynical, sneering, contemptuous, bitterly sarcastic

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Saturnine

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Sluggish in temperament, gloomy, melancholy or sullen, bitter

Question 40

Scathing

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Bitterly severe, harmful, injurious, attack with severe criticism

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Scornful/scorn

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Full of scorn, contemptuous, disdain felt toward a person or object considered unworthy

Question 42

Timorous

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Full of apprehensiveness, timid, full of fear, cowardly

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Turgid

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Inflated, overblown, excessively ornate or complex in style or language

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Vehement

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Zealous, impassioned, violent, strongly emotional, intense, passionate

Question 45

Vexation/vexed

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Irritation, annoyance, bother, perplex, puzzle

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Vitriolic

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Very caustic, scathing, bitter

Question 47

Vituperative

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Marked with harshly abusive censure, harshly abusive criticism

Question 48

Wistful

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Melancholy, longing, yearning, reflective, meditative

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Wrathful

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Very angry, irate, furious, raging, enraged