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Tone Vocab 51-75

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Laudatory Including, expressing or bestowing praise; revering; applause; venerating
Learned having for demonstrating profound knowledge or scholarship; erudite; scholarly.
Loathing Strong, dislike or disgust; intense aversion; abhorrence
Lugubrious mournful or doleful, especially to a ludicrous degree
Matter of fact pertaining to or adhering to facts; literal; objective; detached; clinical
Meditative directed to, characterized by, or expressing meditation; reflective; introspective
Melancholy sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom; pensive reflection or contemplation; solemn; somber; lachrymose
Mocking to treat with scorn or contempt; to decide; ridicule to mimic, as on derision
Mock-serious characterized by pretended seriousness; often creates an ironic whimsical, or humorous tone
Mounrnful feeling or expressing grief; doleful; lamenting; forlorn; elegiac; melancholy
Nostalgic a longing for things persons or situations tied to the past
Objective not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts; disinterested; fair-minded; even handed
patronizing displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner; snobbish;talking down to someone
Pedantic one who pays undue attention to the book learning and formal rules without having an understanding or experience; ostentatious in one's learning; emphasizing minutia or the unimportant when discussing learning or scholarly topics
Piquant Pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind; stimulating; thought-provoking; intriguing
plaintive expressing sorrow; mournful; melancholy
Poignant affecting or moving the emotions; emotionally moving touching.
Pompous Characterized by an exaggerated show of dignity of self-importance; pretentious
Pretentious attempting to impress by affecting greater importance than is actually possessed
Prosaic commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative; banal; insipid; pedestrian
Provincial having or showing the manner or viewpoints considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or illiberal; parochial
Provocative tending to anger or exasperate; exciting; stimulating arousing
Puritanical rigorous in religious observance; marked by stern morality; austere(strict); uptight
Reflective given to,marked by or concerned with meditation or deliberation.
Repressive to keep under control; puritanical; maintaining order; quelling or putting down Rebellion or disorder
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