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honors tone words2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| effusive | given to an excessive display of feeling or emotion |
| elegiac | mournful, expressing sorrow |
| facetious | not meant to be taken seriously or literally: amusing, humorous |
| fanciful | Marked by fancy; whimsical, imaginative, and unreal |
| flippant | frivolously, disrespectful, lacking in seriousness, casual |
| Incisive | sharp, keen, acute clear and direct |
| indignant | angry or exasperated by unworthy or unjust treatment |
| inflammatory | tending to arouse anger hostility violence passion etc |
| insipid | without distinctive, interesting or simulating qualities |
| insolent | boldly rude or disrespectful, insultingly contemptuous |
| lugubrious | mournful, dismal, or gloomy to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree |
| impartial | unbiased, fair, not prejudiced |
| irreverent | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| learned | possessing or demonstrating profound, often systematic knowledge |
| indignant | angry or exasperated by unworthy or unjust treatment |