AP Literature Tone Words 3 2019-2020 Flashcards

14872903050	pedantic	Excessively scholarly or bookish, ostentatious about one's learning	0
14872903051	pensive	Dreamily thoughtful, usually marked by some sadness	1
14872903052	pessimistic	Expecting the worst, having a negative outlook	2
14872903053	petulant	Unreasonably ill tempered, peevish	3
14872903054	philosophical	Calm and stoical in the face of difficulty or disappointment	4
14872903055	poignant	Profoundly moving, evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret	5
14872903056	pompous	Self-important	6
14872903057	pretentious	Attempting to impress, full of pretense	7
14872903058	reflective	Thoughtful, deliberating, meditative	8
14872903059	reverent	Showing or feeling all, respect or veneration	9
14872903060	ribald	Coarsely mocking, vulgar, lewd	10
14872903061	saccharine	Overly sweet or sentimental calm, cloying	11
14872903062	sanguine	Cheerfully optimistic, confident, hopeful	12
14872903063	sarcastic	Cutting, mockery, intended to wound	13
14872903064	sardonic	Scornfully mocking, disdainfully humorous, skeptical, sarcastic	14
14872903065	sentimental	Swayed by feeling, excessively emotional, controlled by feeling rather than thought	15
14872903066	solemn	Deeply earnest, marked by ceremony or ritual	16
14872903067	somber	Dismal, gloomy, dark, dull	17
14872903068	vituperative	Harshly and abusively censorious, condemnatory	18
14872903069	whimsical	Fanciful, unpredictable, subject to change and whim	19
14872903070	wry	Dryly humorous, ironic and amusing	20