AP Literature Tones Flashcards

6296868278	provocative	stimulating, exciting	0
6296868279	audacious	daring, bold, insolent	1
6296869634	persuasive	written to convince or win over	2
6296870676	condescending	patronizing, arrogant	3
6296910794	disdainful	arrogant, lordly, superior, unsympathetic	4
6296912524	sarcastic	snide, mocking, sharp taunting that wounds	5
6296915121	sardonic	derisively mocking, scornful and cynical	6
6296918899	satiric	ridiculing, ironic, mocking, farcical, exposing folly	7
6296920601	mock-heroic	ridiculing a "hero"	8
6296924876	apprehensive	anxious, uneasy, worried	9
6296926642	ominous	fateful, ill-boding, foreboding, dire	10
6296926643	urgent	imperative, critical, intensely necessary	11
6296928945	threatening	menacing, intimidating	12
6296932307	horrific	appalling, shocking, gruesome	13
6296934004	disappointed	deceived, crestfallen, let down	14
6296935475	regretful	contrite, apologetic, sorry (spans mere disappointment to a painful sense of dissatisfaction or self-reproach)	15
6296938885	remorseful	moral anguish, penitent, contrite, rueful over past misdeeds	16
6296941526	somber	bleak, depressing, dismal	17
6296942775	elegiac	lamenting, poignant, funereal	18
6296944909	amused	entertaining in a light and playful manner (directing attention from serious matters in an agreeable and pleasing manner)	19
6296947265	bantering	teasing, joking, playful	20
6296949137	simpering	smiley in a silly, self-conscious, often coy way	21
6296952578	whimsical	capricious, unpredictable	22
6296954289	reverent	venerating, worshipping	23
6296954291	reflective	contemplative, mediative, introspective	24
6296956941	intimate	personal, informal, private	25
6296958468	sympathetic	compassionate, sensitive, to share or understand feelings	26
6296960801	factual	certain, absolute, irrefutable, unbiased	27
6296962554	detached	aloof, impartial, disconnected emotionally	28
6296964407	pedantic	scholarly, making a show of knowledge	29