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Tone Words Flashcards

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Somber

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Gloomy; oppressively solemn or sober

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Urgent

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Requiring immediate action or attention; pressing; earnest

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Mock-heroic

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Imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject

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Diffident

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Modest and shy because of a lack of self confidence

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Objective

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Not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts; impartial

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Restrained

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Characterized by reserve or moderation; kept under control

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Elegiac

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Having a mournful quality; sorrow for something long past

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Disdainful

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Showing contempt or lack of respect for an individual regarded as beneath oneself

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Lugubrious

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Looking or sounding sad or dismal; exaggeratedly glum or mournful

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Pendatic

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One who makes needless display of his learning; exaggerating importance of scholarship

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Indignant

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Feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment

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Bantering

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Good humored ridicule; to tease good naturedly

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Burlesque

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A parody or comically exaggerated imitation of something in a literary or dramatic work

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Fanciful

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Over imaginative and unrealistic; existing only in the imagination or fancy

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Cynical

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Believing that people are motivated by self interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity

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Didactic

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Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

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Detached

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Separate or disconnected; not joined to another, aloof and objective

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Turgid

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Inflated, overblown or pompous; bombastic

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Sardonic

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Characterized by bitter or scornful derision

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Taunting

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Challenging or reproachful in a sarcastic, insulting or jeering manner

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Moralistic

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Adhering to a system of morals or perhaps imposing this system on others

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Colloquial

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Words, phrases or idioms as used in conversation; informal, vernacular

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Compassionate

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To have sorrow for suffering with helpful intent; pity, deep sympathy

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Impartial

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Favoring none more than another; without prejudice; just; fair; unbiased

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Insipid

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Not excited or interesting; flavorless; dull; inane

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Pretentious

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Making claims, implicit or explicit, to some distinction or importance

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Vibrant

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Throbbing with life; vigorous, energetic, radiant

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Irrelevant

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Disrespect; lack of love or awe for something sacred

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Sentimental

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Having or showing tender, gentle, or delicate feelings, but sometimes in an excessive or maudlin way; influenced more by emotion than reason

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Candid

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Honest; outspoken; unbiased, impartial; frank, genuine

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Insolent

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Boldly rude or disrespectful; impertinent

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Contentious

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Tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome

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Flippant

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Frivolous and disrespectful; impertinent

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Patronizing

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To treat with an apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority

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Facetious

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Lightly joking, usually at an inappropriate time; jocose, jocular

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Incisive

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Cutting into; sharp; keen; piercing; acute; trenchant, poignant

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Allusive

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Containing an indirect reference to another work; casual reference

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Scornful

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Filled with extreme indignant contempt; disdain; refusing or rejecting as wrong/ disgraceful

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Effusive

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Pour out freely; overflowing, express excessive emotion in unrestrained manner

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Clinical

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Purely scientific; dispassionately curious; objective, detached

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Mock-serious

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Imitation of a grave quality or manner; to imitate the earnest of an act

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Inflammatory

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Rousing or likely to rouse excitement or violence; vehemently, fiery

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Benevolent

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Doing or inclined to do good; charitable

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Satiric

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Use of ridicule, sarcasm, or irony to expose, attack or deride vices, follies, stupidities or abuses

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Ad hominem argument

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An argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason, to feeling rather than intellect

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Allegory

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The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction

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Allusion

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A reference to a person, place, thing, or work of art that the author expects the reader to know

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Analogy

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Making clear a concept or idea by showing its similarity to a more familiar concept

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Aphorism

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A terse statement of known authorship that expresses a moral principle

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Appeal

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An address to the audience usually through the pronoun “you” or “we” used to link the speaker with the listener

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Concession

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An acknowledgment of objections to a proposal

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Diction

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Word choice

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Didactic

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Teaching

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Emotional appeal

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A speaker’s effort to engage feelings in the audience

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Euphemism

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A less offensive substitute for an unpleasant word

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Homily

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Any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice

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Invective

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An emotionally violent, verbal attack

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Paradox

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A statement that appears to be contradictory, but it is actually true

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Parallelism

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Grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity

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Reduce to the absurd

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To show the foolishness of an argument by taking the argument to its logical conclusion

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Specious reasoning

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Having only apparent logic, not truly logical but presented as such

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Syntax

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Structure

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Tone

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Mood

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Whimsical

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Playful quaint or fanciful in an appealing and amusing way; acting or behaving in a capricious manner

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