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Tone Words Flashcards

1
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Apprehensive

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Fearing something bad will happen

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Brusque

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Abrupt/offhand in speech or matter

Blunt

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Candid

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Truthful and straightforward

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Choleric

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Bad tempered or irritable

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5
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Conciliatory

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Likely to placate

Make someone less angry/hostile

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Derisive

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Expressing contempt or ridicule

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Contentious

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Likely to start an argument

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Ambivalent

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Having mixed feelings about someone or something

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Zealous

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Great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an object

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Wistful

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Having or showing a feeling of vague regretful longing

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Vitriolic

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Filled with bitter criticism

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Timorous

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Showing or suffering from fear, nervousness, or lack of confidence

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Terse

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Abrupt

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Sardonic

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Grimly mocking or cynical

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Sanguine

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Optimistic/ positive especially in bad situations

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Reticent

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Not revealing ones thoughts or feelings readily

17
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Pithy

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Concise and forcefully expressive

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Pensive

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Engaged in deep serious thoughts

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Pedantic

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Overly concerned with minor details

20
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Ominous

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Portending evil or harm, threatening

21
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Mirthful

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Joyous and jolly

22
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Melancholy

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A gloomy state of mind

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Lugubrious

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Mournful and gloomy in an exaggerated or unrelieved manner

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Lethargic

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Drowsy and sluggish

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Jocund

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Cheerful and merry

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Introspective

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Observation of ones own mental or emotional state

27
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Indignant

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Feeling or expressing displeasure towards something considered unjust or offensive

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Incredulous

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Not willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without evidence

29
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Incisive

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Remarkably clear and direct, sharp, keen, acute

30
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Holier-than-thou

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Obnoxiously having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations

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Haughty

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Disdainfully proud, snobbish

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Foreboding

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Strong inner feeling of what could happen in the future

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Fervent

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

34
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Fatalistic

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The acceptance of all things and events as inevitable

35
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Euphoric

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Feeling intense excitement or happiness

36
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Elated

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Make someone ecstatically happy

37
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Ebullient

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Cheerful or full of energy

38
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Derogatory

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Showing disrespectful attitude

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