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Tone Definition

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