AP Literature Tone Words 3 Flashcards

7423567336	pedantic	Excessively scholarly or bookish, ostentatious about one's learning	0
7423567337	pensive	Dreamily thoughtful, usually marked by some sadness	1
7423567338	pessimistic	Expecting the worst, having a negative outlook	2
7423567339	petulant	Unreasonably ill tempered, peevish	3
7423567340	philosophical	Calm and stoical in the face of difficulty or disappointment	4
7423567341	poignant	Profoundly moving, evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret	5
7423567342	pompous	Self-important	6
7423567343	pretentious	Attempting to impress, full of pretense	7
7423567344	reflective	Thoughtful, deliberating, meditative	8
7423567345	reverent	Showing or feeling all, respect or veneration	9
7423567346	ribald	Coarsely mocking, vulgar, lewd	10
7423567347	saccharine	Overly sweet or sentimental calm, cloying	11
7423567348	sanguine	Cheerfully optimistic, confident, hopeful	12
7423567349	sarcastic	Cutting, mockery, intended to wound	13
7423567350	sardonic	Scornfully mocking, disdainfully humorous, skeptical, sarcastic	14
7423567351	sentimental	Swayed by feeling, excessively emotional, controlled by feeling rather than thought	15
7423567352	solemn	Deeply earnest, marked by ceremony or ritual	16
7423567353	somber	Dismal, gloomy, dark, dull	17
7423567354	vituperative	Harshly and abusively censorious, condemnatory	18
7423567355	whimsical	Fanciful, unpredictable, subject to change and whim	19
7423567356	wry	Dryly humorous, ironic and amusing	20