AP Language tone/diction words + definitions Flashcards

13628253637	admiring	complimentary, favorable	0
13628253638	alarmed	excited	1
13628257167	allusive	suggestive, hinting	2
13628257235	aloof	distant	3
13628259801	ambivalent	indecisive	4
13628261495	angry	irate	5
13628261496	anxious	uneasy, brooding	6
13628264791	apathetic	uncaring, uninvolved	7
13628266496	apologetic	regretful	8
13628269720	audacious	bold, insolent	9
13628269721	belligerent	contentious	10
13628272025	benevolent	kindly	11
13628272026	bitter	hating, malicious, resentful, rancorous	12
13628273734	candid	frank, truthful	13
13628278329	captious	ready to detect trivial faults	14
13628280295	censorious	severely critical	15
13628280296	clinical	detached, coolly dispassionate	16
13628283941	cold	unemotional	17
13628283942	complacent	self-satisfied	18
13628286551	condescending	showing superiority, patronizing	19
13628295248	confident	certain, full of conviction	20
13628297390	confused	perplexed	21
13628297391	contemptuous	scornful, disdainful, disrespectful, irrelevant	22
13628301600	critical	judging harshly	23
13628304682	cynical	contemptuously distrustful of human nature and motives	24
13628307194	depressed	dejected	25
13628307195	desperate	showing a loss of hope	26
13628310470	detached	unconcerned, aloof, distant, unbiased	27
13628312741	didactic	instructive	28
13628315938	dispassionate	unaffected by strong feelings; showing coolness of judgement	29
13628317803	dogmatic	authoritative, assertive, arrogant	30
13628321161	dreamy	vague, in a state of reverie, appearing tranquil	31
13628325074	effusive	excessively demonstrative, gushing	32
13628327159	elated	joyful	33
13628327160	elegiac	Expressing sorrow or lamentation	34
13628329606	fanciful	whimsical	35
13628329607	flippant	lacking proper respect or seriousness	36
13628335899	forgiving	pardoning, excusing	37
13628337930	frivolous	lacking seriousness, playful, silly	38
13628340309	Giddy	lighthearted	39
13628345506	hesitant	reluctant	40
13628345507	impartial	unbiased	41
13628345508	impassioned	ardent, fervent, fervid	42
13628348183	importunate	overly persistent in demand	43
13628350113	incredulous	not believing	44
13628351976	indignant	showing anger at injustice	45
13628351977	insolent	arrogant, overbearing, impudent	46
13628354678	ironic	expressing the opposite of the literal meaning	47
13628357766	irreverent	disrespectful	48
13628359982	jocular	joking, humorous	49
13628362883	lugubrious	dismal, mournful	50
13628365965	matter of fact	concerned with fact only, not imaginative or fanciful; objective	51
13628368599	melancholy	sadness	52
13628371222	optimistic	inclined to expect the best possible outcome	53
13628373401	pedantic	tending to show off one's learning	54
13628375391	pessimistic	seeing the worst side of things; no hope	55
13628375392	pompous	arrogant, self important	56
13628378798	puerile	childish, juvenile, immature	57
13628380904	pungent	caustic, stinging, biting, strong	58
13628382472	restrained	reserved	59
13628382474	sardonic	grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic	60
13628385197	satirical	ridiculing, ironic, mocking, taunting	61
13628389175	sentimental	affectedly emotional, maudlin	62
13628391432	skeptical	inclined to doubt; slow to accept something as true	63
13628393923	somber	serious; gloomy	64
13628396217	supercilious	proud and contemptuous; showing scorn because of a feeling of superiority	65
13628398229	tongue-in-cheek	ironic, facetious, sarcastic	66
13628401233	threatening	menacing	67
13628403298	urgent	needing quick action or attention	68
13628403299	vexed	annoyed, agitated	69
13628405115	vindictive	vengeful, unforgiving (Cersei Lannister)	70
13628407228	zealous	eager, earnest, devoted	71
13628447851	artificial	fake	72
13628450315	colloquial	Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing	73
13628450316	colorful	richly eventful or picturesque	74
13628453856	concrete	existing in a material or physical form; real or solid; not abstract.	75
13628453857	connotative	the implied or associated meaning of a word	76
13628456150	cultured	marked by refinement in taste and manners	77
13628459254	elevated	lifted up; in language this means using fanciful expressions	78
13628462652	emotional	showing strong feelings	79
13628465399	esoteric	intended for or understood by only a small group	80
13628465400	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	81
13628467542	exact	(verb): to demand and obtain by force or authority; (adj): specific	82
13628474812	grotesque	absurd; distorted	83
13628477648	homespun	simple and unsophisticated	84
13628479429	idiomatic	characteristic of a particular language	85
13628481919	insipid	lacking flavor; dull; not at all stimulating	86
13628486005	jargon	special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.	87
13628488370	learned	having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite	88
13628488392	moralistic	concerned with morals	89
13628493051	obscure	difficult to understand; partially hidden	90
13628496777	plain	unimaginative, bland	91
13628499076	poetic	having a quality or style characteristic of poetry	92
13628499077	scholarly	concerned with academic learning or research	93
13628500904	prosaic	(adj.) dull, lacking in distinction and originality; matter-of-fact, straightforward; characteristic of prose, not poetic	94
13628500923	precise	exact; accurate	95
13628503310	pretentious	pompous, self-important	96
13628505205	slang	informal language	97
13628505206	symbolic	serving as a symbol	98
13628505208	vulgar	lacking refinement or taste; crude	99