AP Language- Tone Vocab Flashcards

10746777449	boisterous	a person or event that's noisy, energetic, and cheerful	0
10746778921	effusive	expressing a lot of emotion	1
10746781858	elated	very happy and excited	2
10746783628	exuberant	joyously unrestrained	3
10746784988	exultant	expressing great joy	4
10746786954	fanciful	imaginative	5
10746788651	festive	cheerful and exciting	6
10757133490	genial	freely expressing sympathy or friendliness	7
10757136084	jocular	said/done as a joke	8
10757137347	mirthful	gladness or gaiety shown by laughter	9
10757139135	nostalgic	yearning for happiness felt formerly	10
10757141801	sanguine	cheerfully optimistic	11
10757144251	whimsical	usual in a playful or amusing way	12
10757145496	wistful	wishing for something happy from before	13
10757147641	admonitory	to caution, advise, or counsel against something	14
10757151510	condemnatory	declare wrong/evil	15
10757152578	exacerbated	to make a bad situation worse	16
10757158916	incendiary	agitating	17
10757172635	incensed	very angry; enraged	18
10757174055	indignant	feeling angry because of something unjust	19
10757179640	inflammatory	tending to excite anger	20
10757182369	irate	arising from anger	21
10757183866	livid	furiously angry	22
10757191641	pretentious	showing the unpleasant quality of people who want to be seen as more impressive than they really are	23
10757257660	vexed	feeling irritated, annoyed, or distressed	24
10757261281	wrathful	strong vengeful anger or indignation	25
10757262877	apprehensive	afraid something bad or unpleasant will happen	26
10757265846	chagrined	ashamed; mortified	27
10757268528	despairing	showing the loss of all hope	28
10757276409	disconcerted	to throw into confusion	29
10757281453	foreboding	a feeling that something bad will happen	30
10757283477	melancholic	characterized by or causing or expressing sadness	31
10757285166	ominous	considered a sign of evil/trouble to come	32
10757290838	sober	having a very serious attitude	33
10757292697	solemn	serious; formal and dignified	34
10757292698	somber	very sad and serious	35
10757299934	staid	quiet or subdued in character or conduct	36
10757308895	bantering	address in a witty and teasing matter	37
10757310402	condescending	showing you believe you are more intelligent than others	38
10757312409	contemptuous	expressing deep hatred or disapproval	39
10757315739	cynical	believing that people act only out of selfish motives	40
10757320640	derisive	ridiculing, mocking	41
10757322333	disdainful	lack of respect	42
10757329769	eccentric	unconventional and slightly strange	43
10757331543	facetious	joking, often inappropriately	44
10757333137	flippiant	lacking proper seriousness	45
10757343148	insolent	boldly rude	46
10757345952	irreverent	disrespectful	47
10757348263	mock-serious	pretending to be serious	48
10757357301	patronizing	treat with kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority	49
10757388590	pompous	having or exhibiting self-importance	50
10757392503	sardonic	derisively mocking	51
10757403075	satiric	sarcasm used to expose and discredit	52
10757406857	scathing	causing great harm	53
10757408839	scornful	showing disgust and anger	54
10757413445	taunting	challenge in a mocking or insulting manner	55
10757415267	witty	clever or amusing	56
10757418654	ambiguous	open to more than one interpretation	57
10757420463	apathetic	having or showing little or no emotion	58
10757431040	candid	free from bias	59
10757433761	ceremonial	having no real power or influence	60
10762086286	clinical	coolly analytical and impersonal	61
10762090702	colloquial	used in ordinary or familiar conversation	62
10762092113	didactic	intended to teach	63
10762093283	esoteric	intended for or understood by only a small group of people	64
10762105166	incredulous	unwilling to believe something	65
10762106421	lyrical	having an artistically expressive quality	66
10762107199	objective	not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts	67
10762109524	placid	not easily upset or excited	68
10762110404	prosaic	dull, ordinary	69
10762112984	reminiscent	reminding of the past	70
10762114955	Spartan	plain, simple	71
10762115864	tedious	long and tiresome	72