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Tones Flashcards

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Filled with or characterized by a lively energy and excitement.

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Exuberant

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Having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner.

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Amiable

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Over imaginative and unrealistic

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Fanciful

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Cheerful and friendly

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Jovial

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Feeling or expressing great happiness or triumph

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Jubilant

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Feeling or showing deep and solemn respect

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Reverent

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Playfully quaint or fanciful esp. in an appealing and amusing way

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Whimsical

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Showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern

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Apathetic

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Having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities

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Arrogant

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Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks

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Audacious

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Hostile and aggressive

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Belligerent

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Self-assertive in a rude, noisy, or overbearing

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Brash

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Bad tempered or irritable

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Choleric

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Rude, crude, vulgar

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Coarse

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Expressing strong disapproval; censorial

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Condemnatory

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Angry or dissatisfied

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Disgruntled

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Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor

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Facetious

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Arrogantly superior and disdainful

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Haughty

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

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Indignant

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Showing disapproval or contempt towards others

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Snooty

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Existing or occurring at or on the surface

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Superficial

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bad-tempered and unfriendly

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Surly

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Easily irritated

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Testy

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The playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks

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Bantering

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Sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way

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Caustic

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Showing contempt; scornful

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Contemptuous

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Contemptuous; mocking

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Cynical

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Showing contempt or lack of respect

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Disdainful

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Curious or unusual in a way that provoked dry humor

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Droll

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Not showing a serious or respectful attitude

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Flippant

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Showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect

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Insolent

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Showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously

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Irreverent

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Affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self important

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Pompous

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Referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude or irreverent way

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Ribald

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Grimly mocking or cynical

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Sardonic

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Using or expressing dry, esp. mocking humor

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Wry

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Anxious or fearful that something unpleasant or bad will happen

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Apprehensive

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Sad and depressed

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Dejected

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Showing the loss of all hope

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Despairing

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Fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen

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Foreboding

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Sullen and ill-tempered

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Morose

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Threatening; inauspicious; giving the feeling that something bad will happen

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Ominous

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Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret

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Poignant

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Formal and dignified

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Solemn

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Sedate, respectable, and unadventurous

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Staid

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Giving a warning or reprimand

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Admonitory

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Showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others

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Callous

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Truthful and straightforward

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Candid

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

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Didactic

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Resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction

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Earnest

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Having or displaying a passionate intensity

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Fervent

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Over theatrical or melodramatic in character or style

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Histrionic

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Unwilling or unable to believe something

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Incredulous

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Curious or inquiring

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Inquisitive

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Closely acquainted; familiar

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Intimate

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Expressing the writer’s emotion in an imaginative and beautiful way

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Lyrical

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Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

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Obsequious

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Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance

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Pretentious

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Tending to remind one of something

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Reminiscent

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Characterized by reserve or moderation; unemotional or dispassionate

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Restrained

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Of or prompted by feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia

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Sentimental

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Annoyed, frustrated, worried

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Vexed

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Having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing

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Wistful

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Having or showing great energy

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Zealous

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