Tone Words Quiz 3 Flashcards

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Derisive

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mocking; jeering; contemptuous; ridiculing

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Didactic

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instructive; inclined to teach or moralize, often excessively

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Disdainful

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scornful; haughty; proud

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Effusive

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unrestrained or profuse in emotional expression; gushy

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Elegiac

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mournful; expressing sorrow or lamentation

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Erudite

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learned or scholarly

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Facetious

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meant to be humorous; without serious intent

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Fanciful

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imaginative; whimsical

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Flippant

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disrespectfully casual; frivolous

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Foreboding

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marked by a sense of impending evil; ominous

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