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Tone Words 4 Flashcards

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Indifferent due to lack of energy or concern

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Apathetic

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Grateful; thankful; showing pleasure; enthusiastic

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Appreciative

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Fearful or anxious, especially about the future

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Apprehensive

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Tired and impatient due to loss or interest, weary of repetition

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Bored

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Open and sincere, honest

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Candid

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Feeling or showing concern for others; deeply sympathetic

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Compassionate

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Eager to know or learn something; questioning

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Curious

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Instructive, designed to teach

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Didactic

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Predicting or sensing danger or evil to come, warning of danger

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Foreboding

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Not caring, having no interest; unbiased, impartial

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Indifferent

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Encouraging; reassuring; motivating the reader to act

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Inspirational

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Having the attention or curiosity engaged; attentive

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Interested

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Educated, experienced, scholarly; erudite

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Learned

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Characterized by a narrow and conventional righteous attitude, language attempting to regulate the behavior of others (toward its own definition of correct or moral behavior)

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Moralistic

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Menacing; threatening, of bad omen

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Ominous

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Characterized by an excessive display of learning or scholarship; tending to show off one’s learning

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Pedantic

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Showing honor or high regard; full of, characterized by, or showing politeness or deference

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Respectful

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Treating a subject with honor and respect; feeling or expressing very deep respect and awe

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Reverent

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Describes a tone that is academic, learned and studious

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Scholarly

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Solemn; grave

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Serious

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Simple and easy to understand; direct and clear

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Straightforward

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Compassionate; feeling, showing, or expressing agreement toward an idea or situation or person

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Sympathetic

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Menacing; having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner

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Threatening

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Requiring immediate action or attention; imperative or pressing

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Urgent

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