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English AP Tone
Tone Definition
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Admonitory | expressing admonition : WARNING |
| Ardent | intensely devoted, eager, or enthusiastic |
| Belittling | to speak of as unimportant; to disparage |
| Blasé | indifferent to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence or enjoyment |
| Bombastic | Pompous, Overblown |
| Boorish | unmannered; crude; insensitive |
| Candid | free from bias—open and honest |
| Coaxing | to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering |
| Condemnatory | to declare something reprehensible, wrong, or evil |
| Contemptuous | showing or expressing disdain; scornful |
| Contrite | showing sorrow and remorse for a sin, feeling guilty |
| Cordial | sincerely or deeply felt, polite |
| Cynical | bitterly or sneeringly distrustful, contemptuous, or pessimistic |
| Deprecatory | seeking to avert disapproval |
| Derisive | contemptuous; mocking |
| Didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| Disparaging | tending to belittle, put someone down |
| Docile | easily taught or submissive |
| Elated | to fill with joy or pride |
| Enraptured | to fill with delight |
| Exalted | rapturously excited |
| Facetious | amusing; attempting to be humorous |
| Fawning | to court favor by a cringing or flattering |
| Flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| Guileless | Innocent, naive |
| Haughty | blatantly and disdainfully proud |
| Imperious | Overbearing, bossy, dictatorial |
| Imperturbable | extreme calm, unable to be bothered |
| Impetuous | Rash or impulsive behavior |
| Impudent | shameless or brazenly immodest |
| Incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true |
| Indignant | filled with or marked by anger |
| Indulgent | Giving in to something |
| Inert | having no inherent power of action, motion, or resistance |
| Ingratiating | intended or adopted in order to gain favor |
| Insinuating | to suggest or hint slyly |
| Insolent | boldly rude or disrespectful |
| Languid | depression of spirits |
| Melancholy | tediously uniform or unvarying |
| Nonchalant | having an air of easy unconcern or indifference |
| Obliging | to be kindly accommodating |
| Obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a flattering attentiveness |
| Pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
| Peremptory | expressive of urgency or command, no option to refuse |
| Plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe |
| Pompous | Feeling of superiority over others |
| Querulous | habitually complaining |
| Rapturous | full of, feeling, or manifesting ecstatic joy or delight |
| Satiric | Mocking, sarcastic, bitter humor |
| Sententious | excessive moralizing; self-righteous |
| Serene | calm and unruffled repose |
| Solemn | very serious, somber or sad |
| Solicitous | Overly pleasing (sales people) |
| Sprightly | marked by a happy lightness and vivacity |
| Stoic | one apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain |
| Uproarious | very funny |
| Vexed | Extremely angry |
| Monotonous | tediously uniform or unvarying |
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