AP Literature Vocabulary: Tone Words Flashcards

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