Tone Words Quiz 6

Question 1

reflective

Answer 1

thoughtful; deliberating; meditative

Question 2

reverent

Answer 2

showing or feeling awe, respect, or veneration

Question 3

ribald

Answer 3

coarsely mocking; vulgar; lewd

Question 4

saccharine

Answer 4

overly sweet or sentimental; cloying

Question 5

sanguine

Answer 5

cheerfully optimistic; confident; hopeful

Question 6

sarcastic

Answer 6

cutting; mocking; intended to wound

Question 7

sardonic

Answer 7

scornfully mockingly disdainfully humorous skeptical; sarcastic

Question 8

sentimental

Answer 8

swayed by feeling; excessively emotional; controlled by feeling rather than thought

Question 9

solemn

Answer 9

deeply earnest; marked by ceremony or ritual

Question 10

somber

Answer 10

dismal; gloomy; dark; dull

Question 11

vituperative

Answer 11

harshly and abusively censorious; condemnatory

Question 12

whimsical

Answer 12

fanciful; unpredictable; subject to change and whim capricious

Question 13

wry

Answer 13

dryly humorous, ironic and amusing