5518892795 | poignant | affecting the emotions | ![]() | 0 |
5518893903 | patronizing | offensively condescending | ![]() | 1 |
5518895827 | incredulous | skeptical; disinclined to believe | ![]() | 2 |
5518897192 | forthright | direct; straightforward | 3 | |
5518898231 | unabashed | boldly certain of one's position; not ashamed | 4 | |
5518899813 | wry | twisted or perverse (as in a sense of humor) | ![]() | 5 |
5518901577 | pretentious | making an exaggerated outward show; pompous | ![]() | 6 |
5518903696 | brazen | shameless; bold; insolent; defiant | 7 | |
5518905309 | ambivalent | having mixed feelings about someone or something | ![]() | 8 |
5518906703 | incensed | indignant; outraged | 9 | |
5518907614 | pragmatic | practical | 10 | |
5518908720 | pompous | characterized by an ostentatious display of importance | 11 | |
5518910413 | reticent | reserved; reluctant | 12 | |
5518911535 | indignant | feeling strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting or base | 13 | |
5518915208 | contemptuous | scornful; disrespectful; showing disdain | 14 | |
5518917353 | caustic | severely critical or sarcastic | ![]() | 15 |
5518918165 | malicious | spiteful; acting with evil intent | ![]() | 16 |
5518920785 | didactic | instructive--too lecture-driven; preachy; tone- designed to teach a lesson | ![]() | 17 |
5518922604 | seductive | enticing; captivating | 18 | |
5518923716 | whimsical | spontaneously fanciful or playful | 19 | |
5518924898 | somber | extremely serious; grave; depressing | ![]() | 20 |
5518926856 | satiric | taunting; cutting; biting | 21 | |
5518928314 | urgent | requiring immediate action or attention | ![]() | 22 |
5518931364 | mock-heroic | an imitation or burlesque of something heroic | 23 | |
5518932498 | diffident | lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy | ![]() | 24 |
5518935289 | ironic | conveying a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning; sarcastic | 25 | |
5518937304 | petty | of little or no importance or consequence; minor | 26 | |
5518939328 | elegiac | expressing sorrow or lamentation | ![]() | 27 |
5518940436 | disdainful | scornful; contemptuous; haughty | ![]() | 28 |
5518941849 | lugubrious | exaggeratedly mournful | ![]() | 29 |
5518943082 | anti-hero | a protagonist who lacks the heroic qualities of courage, idealism or morality | 30 | |
5518952296 | aesthetic | artistic sensibility; a guiding principle in matters of artistic beauty and taste | ![]() | 31 |
5518958595 | detail | creating a simple image with no connotation at all | ![]() | 32 |
5518960691 | parallel (structure, parallelism) | a repetition of sentence using the same grammatical structure emphasizing all aspects of the sentence equally | ![]() | 33 |
5518975778 | pun | a humorous play on words | ![]() | 34 |
AP Language and Composition Tone Words 1 Flashcards
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