AP Language Tone, Attitude, Style Words Flashcards

11894630952	accusatory	charging of wrongdoing	0
11894630953	apathetic	indifferent due to lack of energy or concern	1
11894630954	awe	solemn wonder	2
11894630955	bitter	exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief	3
11894630956	cynical	questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people	4
11894630957	condescension	a feeling of superiority	5
11894630958	callous	unfeeling, insensitive to the feelings of others	6
11894630959	contemplative	studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue	7
11894630960	critical	finding fault	8
11894630961	choleric	hot-tempered, easily angered	9
11894630962	contemptuous	showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks respect	10
11894630963	caustic	intense use of sarcasm, stinging, biting	11
11894630964	conventional	lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality	12
11894630965	disdainful	scornful	13
11894630966	didactic	author attempts to educate or instruct the reader	14
11894630967	derisive	ridiculing, mocking	15
11894630968	earnest	intense, a sincere state of mind	16
11894630969	erudite	learned, polished, scholarly	17
11894630970	fanciful	using the imagination	18
11894630971	forthright	directly frank without hesitation	19
11894630972	gloomy	sadness, darkness, rejection	20
11894630973	haughty	proud and vain to the point of arrogance	21
11894630974	indignant	marked by anger, aroused by injustice	22
11894630975	intimate	very familiar	23
11894630976	judgmental	authoritative and often having critical opinions	24
11894630977	jovial	happy	25
11894630978	lyrical	expressing a poets inner feelings, emotional, full of images, song-like	26
11894630979	matter of fact	accepting of conditions, not fanciful or emotional	27
11894630980	mocking	treating with contempt or ridicule	28
11894630981	morose	gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent	29
11894630982	malicious	purposefully hurtful	30
11894630983	objective	an unbiased view, able to leave personal judgments aside	31
11894630984	optimistic	hopeful, cheerful	32
11894630985	obsequious	polite and obedient in order to gain something	33
11894630986	patronizing	air of condescension	34
11894630987	pessimistic	seeing the worst side of things, no hope	35
11894630988	quizzical	(adj.) puzzled; mocking; odd; equivocal	36
11894630989	ribald	offensive in speech or gesture	37
11894630990	reverent	treating a subject with honor and respect	38
11894630991	ridiculing	slightly contemptuous banter, making fun of	39
11894630992	reflective	illustrating innermost thoughts or emotions	40
11894630993	sarcastic	sneering, caustic	41
11894630994	sardonic	scornfully and bitterly sarcastic	42
11894630995	satiric	ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach	43
11894630996	sincere	without deceit or pretense, genuine	44
11894630997	solemn	deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection	45
11894630998	sanguineous	optimistic and cheerful	46
11894630999	whimsical	odd, strange, fantastic, fun	47