AP Literature Tone Words 3 2018-2019 Flashcards

10704276966	pedantic	Excessively scholarly or bookish, ostentatious about one's learning	0
10704276967	pensive	Dreamily thoughtful, usually marked by some sadness	1
10704276968	pessimistic	Expecting the worst, having a negative outlook	2
10704276969	petulant	Unreasonably ill tempered, peevish	3
10704276970	philosophical	Calm and stoical in the face of difficulty or disappointment	4
10704276971	poignant	Profoundly moving, evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret	5
10704276972	pompous	Self-important	6
10704276973	pretentious	Attempting to impress, full of pretense	7
10704276974	reflective	Thoughtful, deliberating, meditative	8
10704276975	reverent	Showing or feeling all, respect or veneration	9
10704276976	ribald	Coarsely mocking, vulgar, lewd	10
10704276977	saccharine	Overly sweet or sentimental calm, cloying	11
10704276978	sanguine	Cheerfully optimistic, confident, hopeful	12
10704276979	sarcastic	Cutting, mockery, intended to wound	13
10704276980	sardonic	Scornfully mocking, disdainfully humorous, skeptical, sarcastic	14
10704276981	sentimental	Swayed by feeling, excessively emotional, controlled by feeling rather than thought	15
10704276982	solemn	Deeply earnest, marked by ceremony or ritual	16
10704276983	somber	Dismal, gloomy, dark, dull	17
10704276984	vituperative	Harshly and abusively censorious, condemnatory	18
10704276985	whimsical	Fanciful, unpredictable, subject to change and whim	19
10704276986	wry	Dryly humorous, ironic and amusing	20