AP LANGUAGE TONE VOCAB WORDS Flashcards

9251701356	sardonic	grimly mocking or cynical	0
9251703398	scornful	feeling or expressing contempt or derision	1
9251707747	satiric	sarcastic, critical, and mocking another's weaknesses	2
9251712624	vituperative	bitter and abusive	3
9251718100	scathing	witheringly scornful; severely critical	4
9251722918	facetious	treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant	5
9251733074	resigned	having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about	6
9251753470	objective	not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts	7
9251744473	wistful	having or showing a feeling of vague of regretful longing	8
9251749201	pedantic	overly concerned with formal rules and trivial point of learning	9
9251762591	didactic	intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive	10
9251777849	disdainful	showing contempt for lack of respect	11
9251780940	laudatory	expressing praise and commendation	12
9251785820	idyllic	extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque	13
9251790102	reverent	feeling or showing deep and solemn respect	14
9251796596	irreverent	showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously	15
9251806520	lugubrious	looking or sounding sad and dismal	16
9251811474	elegiac	relating to or characteristic of an elegy that expresses similar mournfulness or sorrow	17
9251825973	macabre	disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or death and injury	18
9251830251	maudlin	self-pitying or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness	19
9251838989	jingoistic	characterized by extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy	20
9251846613	flippant	not showing a serious or respectful attitude	21
9251849414	cynical	believing that people are motivated by self-interest, distrustful of human sincerity or integrity	22
9251854434	indignant	feeling or showing anger in annoyance in what is perceived as unfair treatment	23