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English Vocab 1
tone words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| baffled | to be confused and bewildered by a situation |
| pensive | dreamily thoughtful |
| melancholic | gloomy and sad |
| festive | very happy and joyful |
| insipid | flat, dull, uninteresting, bland |
| poignant | intense, skillful, heartfelt |
| austere | solemn and serious; strict and stern |
| petulant | very irritable or having a bad temper |
| admonitory | expressing warning or caution |
| contentious | competition or dispute; quarrelsome, argumentative |
| condescendingly | acting superiour |
| indignant | expressing anger at something considered unjust or insulting |
| somber | gloomy, depressing, or dismal |
| apathatic | having or showing lilttle or no emotion |
| urgent | calling for immediate attention |
| flippant | frivilously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking seriousness |
| diabolic | devilish, outrageously wicked, cruelty |
| incensed | angered, engraged, furious |
| sarcastic | to ridicule with bitter irony |
| patronizing | displaying an offensive manner, or talking down with kind intent |
| benevolent | desire to help others; kind |
| ock-heroic | immitating one that is heroic |
| pompous | to impress; arrogent in wanting to impress |
| cunning | clever, sly, sharp |
| elegiac | a sorrow or mourning for something passed |
| elated | very happy or proud; jubilant; in high spirits |
| brusque | abrupt in manner; blunt; rough |
| taunting | a rude remark to anger or hurt somwone |
| pretentious | pretending to sound more important than you are |
| sympathetic | having a pleaseant nature or showing compassion to someone |
| contemptuous | showing an intense feeling of disrespect and dislike; condescending |
| peevish | easily annoyed or ill-tempered |
| incredulous | skeptical; cant beleive because something is incredible |
| scornful | contemptuous, disdain, equal level-not looking down |
| resigned | having or showing patience-almost giving up |
| wounded | impaired, hurt, or suffering injury |