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Tonal Words
author's voice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acerbic | acidic, bitter, sharp |
| benevolent | kindly |
| bittersweet | showing a mixture of pain and pleasure |
| clinical | highly objective; rigorously scientific; analytical |
| colloquial | using a conversational style, informal |
| condescending | an air of superiority |
| contemptuous | expressing contempt a lack of respect or hate |
| cryptic | hidden mysterious unknown |
| cynical | an attitude of distrust of people and human nature |
| despondent | showing extreme discouragement or depression |
| didactic | in a tone intended to preach a sermon or teach a lesson about life |
| disdainful | expressing hate dislike or contempt |
| elegiac | mournful; expressing sorrow |
| enigmatic | puzzling; riddle-like |
| euphoric | feeling of elation or great joy |
| facetious | playfully humorous |
| flippant | lacking proper respect |
| frivolous | lacking seriousness |
| grandiose | characterized by feigned grandeur; pompous |
| hostile | extremely angry |
| iconoclastic | attacking traditional or popular ideas or institutions |
| impartial | attitude of being unbiased |
| indignant | attitude of being angry because of injustice or unworthiness |
| insipid | lacking flavor or zest; flat, unstimulating, vapor |
| irreverent | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| laconic | terse, concise; succinct |
| laudatory | pertaining to or expressing praise |
| maternal/paternal | like a mother or a father (parental) |
| moralistic | characterized by a narrow and conventional moral attitude |
| nostalgic | a sentimental yearning for a return to some past period of time |
| obsequious | fawning; full of servile compliance |
| ostentatious | showy: pretentious |
| patronizing | an air of treating someone well because of a feeling of superiority |
| pedantic | unimaginative |
| pithy | precisely meaningful |
| poignant | affecting the emotions strongly |
| precocious | prematurely developed |
| pretentious | attitude of extreme show to the point of being fake |
| prosaic | not poetic; matter of fact; dull; ordinary |
| ribald | humor that is vulgar or lewd |
| rueful | inspiring pity or compassion |
| saccharine | cloyingly sweet |
| somber | gloomy dismal or depressing |
| sophomoric | immature and over confident |
| vociferous | characterized by loudness and vehemence |
| whimsical | erratic and unpredictable |
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hrbarry21
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