AP Literature Tone Vocabulary Flashcards

3303121884	Absorbed	deeply interested or involved; preoccupied assimilate, consume, devour, engulf	0
3303126170	Acerbic	harsh or seer in temper or expression acidic, harsh, sharp, caustic, tart	1
3303130760	Accusatory	containing an accusation; accusing condemnatory, censorious, denunciatory, disapproving	2
3303138416	Admonitory	tending or serving to admonish; warning reproachful, exemplary, premonitory, cautious	3
3303141474	Aggravated	to make worse or more severe annoy, irritate, exasperate	4
3303145219	Agitated	feeling or appearing troubled or nervous disturbed, distressed, unsettled	5
3303149259	Allusive	implying or indirectly suggesting something implied, impressionistic, indirect, allusion	6
3303153267	Aloof	not friendly or forthcoming, more cold or distant distant, detached, antisocial, reserved	7
3303157907	Ambiguous	open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations opaque, equivocal, puzzling, dubious	8
3303162185	Ambivalent	having mixed feelings about something or undecided about actions uncertain, doubtful, indecisive, inconclusive	9
3303167138	Arbitrary	based on random choice or personal whim rather than reason random, unpredictable, illogical, subjective	10
3303172613	Amiable	having or showing good-natured personal qualities affable, sociable, engaging, forthright	11
3303178694	Audacious	showing willingness to take bold risks bold, daring, brave, courageous	12
3303182680	Assertive	confidently aggressive or self-assured confident, decisive, emphatic, assured	13
3303186931	Baleful	full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious calamitous, dire, malevolent, ominous	14
3303193862	Bemused	to puzzle, confuse, or bewilder someone confuse, baffled, dumbfounded, puzzled	15
3349843042	Benevolent	Characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings humane, generous, benign, king	16
3349846563	Benign	having a kindly disposition; gracious or showing or expressive of gentleness/kindness good, kindly, gentle, compassionate	17
3349852094	Bombastic	high-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious pompous, grandiose, florid	18
3349856303	Brash	impertinent, impudent, tactless or hasty; rash; impetuous reckless, overhasty, imprudent	19
3349861601	Callous	showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others heartless, unfeeling; uncaring	20
3349865111	Candid	truthful and straight-forward, frank outspoken, forthright, honest, objective	21
3349869412	Capricious	given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior inconsistant, variable, unpredictable	22
3349875331	Caustic	sarcastic in a seething or bitter way sardonic, scornful, acerbic, abrasive	23
3369383980	Chastised	to criticize (someone) harshly for doing something wrong scold, lecture (in context of someone feeling _______)	24
3369389269	Chauvinistic	feeling or showing aggressive or exaggerated patriotism for ones old group bigot, patriot, sexist	25
3369394715	Choleric	bad-tempered or irritable angry, grumpy, grouchy	26
3369396340	Clinical	efficient and unemotional, coldly detached detached, impersonal	27
3369398544	Coarse	(of a person/speech) rude crude or vulgar oafish, loutish, rude or ill-mannered	28
3369402034	Colloquial	of language used in familiar or ordinary conversation; not formal or literary informal, conversational, everyday	29
3369404507	Conciliatory	intended or likely to placate or pacify placatory, appeasing, pacifying	30
3369406649	Condemnatory	expressing strong disapproval, censorious captious, chiding, complaining	31
3429879935	Congenial	(of a person) pleasant because of a personality/interest similar to one's own hospitable, personalbe, agreeable	32
3429883649	Contemptuous	showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; disrespectful condescending, derisive, disdainful, disrespectful	33
3429887829	Contrite	feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt remorseful, repentant, penitent	34
3429890932	Craven	cowardly; contemptibly timid, pusillanimous mean-spirited, chicken, yellow, cowardly	35
3429894186	Cursory	hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed perfunctory, causal, superficial	36
3429897503	Cynical	distrusting of the motives of others; bitterly distrustful, or pessimistic contemptuous, derisive, ironic, misanthropic	37
3429903704	Dejected	sad and depressed; dispirited downcast, downhearted, despondent	38
3429905728	Denigrating	to speak damaging of; to treat or represent as lacking of value besmirch, defame, disparage, impugn	39
3528962136	Depreciating	to express disapproval of something or someone, to urge or protest measures against detract, disesteem, disfavor, detest	40
3528981372	Derogatory	expressing a low opinion or lack of respect towards someone or something degrading, demeaning, slanderous, defamatory	41
3528986488	Desultory	not having a plan or purpose or done without effort or enthusiasm aimless, erratic, unsystematic, chaotic	42
3528994626	Detached	not influenced by emotions or personal interests, separated from another removed, isolated, severed	43
3529012267	Didactic	intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction, as an ulterior motive advisory, instructive, moralizing, perceptive	44
3529031226	Discursive	digressing from subject to subject deviating, digressive, meandering, wandering	45
3529031227	Disdainful	showing contempt or lack of respect contemptuous, insolent, overbearing	46
3529036013	Earnest	resulting from or showing sincere and intense convicting ardent, diligent, heartfelt, sincere	47
3643670546	Effusive	expressing feeling of gratitude, pleasure, or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner gushing, extravagant, lavish	48
3643677280	Elegiac	having a mournful quality, especially in art or poetry melancholy, mournful, sorrowful	49
3643682810	Eloquent	fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing fluent, articulate, expressive	50
3643687510	Elusive	difficult to find, catch, retrieve, or remember ambiguous, indefinable, intangible	51
3643692539	Empathetic	relating to empathy, identifying with others thoughts or feelings compassionate, sympathetic, sensitive	52
3643696736	Enigmatic	difficult to understand or interpret mysterious, perplexing, unfathomable	53
3643699971	Esoteric	intending for to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized interest abstruse, obscure, abstract	54
3643704785	Euphoric	characterized by or feeling intense excitement or happiness delighted, gleeful, elated, happy	55
3812145343	Facetious	treating serious ideas with deliberately inappropriate humor sordonic	56
3812149161	Feign	pretent to be affected by (a feeling, state or injury) fake, sham	57
3812150399	Fervent	having or displaying a passionate intensity impassioned	58
3812151467	Fickle	changing frequently, especially as regarding one's loyalties, interests, or affections variable	59
3812153515	Flippant	not showing a serious or respectful attitude disrespectful/rude	60
3812154966	Foreboding	fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen uneasiness, suspicion, fear, worry	61
3812156547	Forthright	direct and outspoken; straightforward and honest frank, candid, blunt	62
3812158221	Frivolous	not having any serious purpose or value carefree, lighthearted, useless	63
3832135052	Bucolic	relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life	64
3832139403	Jocular	humorous or playful	65
3832140829	Diffidence	modesty or shyness resulting from a lack of self-confidence	66
3867106896	Garrulous	excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters talkative, chatty	67
3867109194	Gregarious	fond of company or sociable outgoing, friendly	68
3867126362	Haughty	arrogantly superior, disdainful proud, arrogant	69
3867128779	Idyllic	extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque perfect, wonderful	70
3867130714	Insolent	showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect impertinent, impudent, cheeky, ill-mannered	71
3867135903	Intransigent	unwilling to change ones views or agree about something uncompromising, inflexible, unbending, or unyeilding	72
3867140049	Irascible	having or shown the tendency to be easily angered irritable, quick-tempered, short-tempered	73
3867143932	Laconic	using very few words brief, concise, terse	74
3925369497	Languid	without energy or spirit spiritless, weak, unenthusiastic, slow	75
3925371686	Laudatory	expressing praise complimentary, praising, congratulatory, celebratory	76
3925375908	Lugubrious	very sad especially in an exaggerated or insincere way mournful, gloomy, sad, sorrowful	77
3925379651	Macabre	involving death or violence in a way that is strange, frightening, or unpleasant gruesome, terrifying, morbid, grotesque	78
3925390957	Malevolent	having or showing a wish to do evil to others malicious, baleful, venomous, or malign	79
3925395021	Malicious	characterized by malice; intending to do harm spiteful, malevolent, vengeful	80
3925399798	Malignant	very dangerous or harmful in influence or effect hurtful, perilous, or spiteful	81
3925404457	Malleable	adaptable or tractable impressionable, moldable, or flexible	82
3968108730	Coy	making a pretense of shyness or modesty that is intended to be alluring invitingly shy, mysteriously shy	83