3488606224 | Abhorrent | disgusting; loathsome; repellent/ felling repugnance or loathing | 0 | |
3488613607 | Admonitory | cautionary; warning | 1 | |
3488616958 | Apathetic | feeling or showing little or no emotion/ uninterested; listless; passive; indifferent | 2 | |
3488629520 | Acerbic | harsh or severe; caustic; vitriolic | 3 | |
3488634527 | Audacious | fearlessly daring; bold; lacking restraint or circumspection; arrogantly insolent | 4 | |
3488643524 | Baffled | puzzled; confounded; bewildered | 5 | |
3488646858 | Banal | repeating a worn-out convention or type; unaffecting and drearily predictable; trite; ordinary; boring; commonplace; mundane; pedestrian | 6 | |
3488662823 | Bantering | good humored teasing; playful repartee; to tease or mock gently; badinage | 7 | |
3488672423 | Benevolent | characterized by benevolence; kindly; of or concerned with charity; altruistic; magnanimous | 8 | |
3488687899 | Bombastic | pompous; grandiloquent (in regards to one's speech) | 9 | |
3488693663 | Bucolic | of or characteristic of the countryside; peaceful or serene | 10 | |
3488701150 | Ceremonial | of or characterized by ceremony; formal; ritual; worthy of respect | 11 | |
3488708331 | Cynical | scornful of the motives or virtue of others; skeptical; doubtful | 12 | |
3488720132 | Clinical | pertaining to or connected with a clinic; pertaining to direct observation and treatment of patients; objective, detached | 13 | |
3488731780 | Condescending | to come down voluntarily to the level of inferiors with whom one id dealing; deign; to deal with people in a patronizing manor; patronizing; belittling | 14 | |
3488747401 | Condemning | expressing disapproval of; censuring; criticizing; to pronounce judgement against; to sentence; to doom | 15 | |
3488759204 | Contemptuous | to look down upon with haughtiness; scornful; disdainful | 16 | |
3488764062 | Contentious | argumentative; quarrelsome; belligerent; bellicose; fractious | 17 | |
3488773661 | Dogmatic | characterized by an authoritative, arrogant assertion of unproved or improvable principles | 18 | |
3488787953 | Derisive | mocking; scoffing | 19 | |
3488791164 | Desultory | moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected; rambling; occurring haphazardly; random | 20 | |
3488803393 | Detached | to separate, usually without violence or damage; disconnected | 21 | |
3488813481 | Didactic | intended to instruct; expository; morally instructive | 22 | |
3488819332 | Disbelieving | to refuse to believe in; reject; incredulous | 23 | |
3488825603 | Disparaging | to belittle; slight; to reduce in esteem or rank; condescending; patronizing | 24 | |
3488838502 | Elegiac | pertaining to an elegy; expressing sorrow; mournful; plaintive | 25 | |
3488849153 | Elitist | a sense of being part of a superior or privileged group; arrogant; pompous; haughty | 26 | |
3488853915 | Eloquent | persuasive, fluent and graceful in discourse; highly, vividly or movingly expressive of emotion | 27 | |
3488865341 | Embittered | to be filled with bitterness or resentment; hostile | 28 | |
3488871202 | Erudite | deeply learned; scholarly; intellectual | 29 | |
3488875891 | Facetious | playful; humorous; flippant; sarcastic | 30 | |
3488886118 | Farcical | ludicrous; absurd | 31 | |
3488889767 | Fatalistic | the doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and therefore unalterable by man; submission to fate; resigned | 32 | |
3488897430 | Flippant | marked by disrespectful levity; sarcastic; not showing a serious or respectful attitude | 33 | |
3488906456 | Foreboding | a dark sense of impending evil; ominous; premonitory; portentous | 34 | |
3488917323 | Frivolous | unworthy of serious attention; insignificant; trivial | 35 | |
3488927261 | Galling | causing acute irritation; exasperation, discomfort or disgust; inflammatory | 36 | |
3488935583 | Giddy | playfully silly | 37 | |
3488938917 | Glib | superficial; insincere; slick or smooth talking | 38 | |
3488944284 | Iconoclastic | characterized by attack on cherished beliefs or institutions; irreverent; heretical | 39 | |
3488949959 | Incredulous | disbelieving; skeptical | 40 | |
3488952724 | Indifferent | characterized by a lack of partiality or bias; not mattering one way or the other; of no great importance; insignificant | 41 | |
3488964967 | Indignant | taking great offense to a moral basis | 42 | |
3488968131 | Inflammatory | arousing strong emotion | 43 | |
3488970505 | Insolent | presumptuous or insulting in manner of speech; arrogant; haughty disrespect | 44 | |
3488976912 | Introspective | given to private thought; contemplative; reflective | 45 | |
3488982251 | Ironic | the opposite of what is expected to happen | 46 | |
3488988041 | Irreverent | disrespectful; iconoclastic; sacrilegious | 47 | |
3488993637 | Lackadaisical | lacking spirit or interest; languid; indifferent; apathetic | 48 | |
3488998406 | Lambasting | to give a thrashing; whip; beat; to scold sharply; berate | 49 | |
3489068982 | Laudatory | including, expressing or bestowing praise; revering applause; venerating | 50 | |
3489073266 | Learned | having or demonstrating profound knowledge or scholarship; erudite; scholarly | 51 | |
3489081359 | Loathing | strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion; abhorrence | 52 | |
3489089599 | Lugubrious | mournful or doleful, especially to a ludicrous degree | 53 | |
3489094179 | Matter of Fact | pertaining to or adhering to facts; literal; objective; detached; clinical | 54 | |
3489107139 | Meditative | reflective, introspective | 55 | |
3489111729 | Melancholy | sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom; pensive reflection or contemplation; solemn; somber; lachrymose | 56 | |
3489120237 | Mocking | to treat with scorn or contempt; deride; mimic; ridicule | 57 | |
3489126362 | Mock-serious | pretend serious look or act | 58 | |
3489127440 | Mournful | feeling or expressing grief; doleful; lamenting; forlorn; elegiac; melancholy | 59 | |
3489133572 | Nostalgic | a longing for things; persons or situations tied to the past; sentimental | 60 | |
3489139017 | Objective | of or having to do with a material object as distinguished from a mental concept, idea or belief; having actual existence or reality | 61 | |
3489148314 | Patronizing | displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner | 62 | |
3489152005 | Pedantic | one who pays undue attention to book learning and formal roles without having an understanding or experience; ostentatious in one's learning | 63 | |
3489160039 | Piquant | stimulating; thought-provoking; intriguing | 64 | |
3489164266 | Plaintive | expressing sorrow; melancholy; mournful | 65 | |
3489167613 | Poignant | affecting or moving the emotions; emotionally moving or touching | 66 | |
3489171641 | Pompous | characterized by an exaggerated show of dignity or self-importance; pretentious | 67 | |
3489178978 | Pretentious | claiming or demanding a position of distinction or merit, especially when unjustified | 68 | |
3490400017 | Prosaic | commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative; banal; insipid; pedestrian | 69 | |
3490403213 | Provincial | belonging or peculiar to some particular province | 70 | |
3490406396 | Provocative | tending to provoke; exciting; stimulating | 71 | |
3490407943 | Puritanical | rigorous in religious observance; marked by a stern morality; austere; uptight | 72 | |
3490412659 | Reflective | given to, marked by or concerned with meditation or deliberation | 73 | |
3490414752 | Repressive | tending or serving to repress; puritanical | 74 | |
3490417085 | Resigned | feeling or marked by resignation; acquiescence | 75 | |
3490419263 | Restrained | keep in check or under control; repress | 76 | |
3490422420 | Reverent | showing profound veneration and respect | 77 | |
3490424025 | Sanctimonious | exhibiting an attitude of superior virtue, smug and self-righteous; holier than thou | 78 | |
3490429002 | Sardonic | scornful; mocking; cynical | 79 | |
3490431716 | Satiric | of or pertaining to, containing, or characterized by satire; sardonic and ironical | 80 | |
3490436519 | Sentimental | weakly emotional; mawkishly susceptible or tender | 81 | |
3490440416 | Scornful | contempt or disdain, as felt toward a person or object considered despicable or inferior | 82 | |
3490444312 | Seductive | tending to seduce alluring; beguiling; coquettish; piquant | 83 | |
3490447579 | Serene | unruffled; tranquil; dignified; placid | 84 | |
3490451148 | Sneering | scornful facial expression characterized by a slight of one corner of the upper lip | 85 | |
3490453769 | Sober | marked by seriousness or gravity; solemnity | 86 | |
3490457646 | Solemn | deeply earnest; serious; grave | 87 | |
3490459471 | Somber | dark, gloomy, lugubrious | 88 | |
3490461930 | Soporific | tending to induce sleep; somniferous | 89 | |
3490462855 | Supercilious | characterized by haughty scorn; disdainful | 90 | |
3490465693 | Sympathetic | of expressing feeling resulting from sympathy; compassionate | 91 | |
3490477630 | Reminiscent | awakening memories of something similar; suggestive | 92 | |
3490480588 | Taunting | to reproach with contempt; mock; jeer at | 93 | |
3490485987 | Tongue in Cheek | meant or expressed ironically or facetiously | 94 | |
3490489064 | Trite | overused and commonplace; lacking interest or originality; prosaic; banal | 95 | |
3490493885 | Urbane | having or showing the refined manners of polite society; elegant; sophisticated; polished; proper | 96 | |
3490500678 | Vexed | irritated; annoyed; troubled | 97 | |
3490501692 | Whimsical | capricious; playful; arbitrary | 98 | |
3490503895 | Zealous | filled with or motivated by zeal; ardent; enthusiastic; fervent | 99 |
AP Literature Vocabulary: Tone Words Flashcards
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