AP Literature Tone Words Flashcards
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| 13848477870 | Acerbic | Sour or bitter in taste (bitter) |  | 0 |
| 13848477875 | Audacious | Disposed to venture or take risks (adventurous) |  | 1 |
| 13848477876 | Banal | Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse (familiar, cliche) |  | 2 |
| 13848477877 | Bellicose | Having or showing a ready disposition to fight (hostile) |  | 3 |
| 13848477878 | Brusque | Marked by rude or peremptory shortness (snobby/ rude) |  | 4 |
| 13848477879 | Bucolic | relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life |  | 5 |
| 13848477882 | Capricious | Determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity |  | 6 |
| 13848477888 | Choleric | Characterized by anger |  | 7 |
| 13848477889 | Churlish | Having a bad disposition; surly |  | 8 |
| 13848477892 | Demure | Affectedly shy especially in a playful or provocative way (flirtatious) |  | 9 |
| 13848477893 | Diffident | Showing modest reserve |  | 10 |
| 13848477894 | Dilatory | Wasting time |  | 11 |
| 13848477897 | Derisive | Expressing contempt or ridicule |  | 12 |
| 13848477898 | Earnest | characterized by a firm, humorless belief in one's opinion |  | 13 |
| 13848477899 | Ebullient | joyously unrestrained |  | 14 |
| 13848477901 | Effusive | Uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm |  | 15 |
| 13848477902 | Enervating | Causing weakness or debilitation |  | 16 |
| 13848477909 | Facetious | Cleverly amusing in tone |  | 17 |
| 13848477910 | Fatuous | Devoid of intelligence (dumb) |  | 18 |
| 13848477914 | Gauche | Lacking social polish (unrefined uncultivated) |  | 19 |
| 13848477915 | Inane | Devoid of intelligence (stupid) |  | 20 |
| 13848477917 | Incensed | Angered at something unjust or wrong |  | 21 |
| 13848477918 | Incisive | Demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions |  | 22 |
| 13848477919 | Indignant | Angered at something unjust or wrong |  | 23 |
| 13848477920 | Indolent | Disinclined to work or exertion (lazy) |  | 24 |
| 13848477921 | Ineffable | Defying expression or description (astonishing) |  | 25 |
| 13848477923 | Jejune | naive, simplistic, superficial OR boring, uninteresting |  | 26 |
| 13848477924 | Jocund | Full of or showing high-spirited merriment (extremely happy) |  | 27 |
| 13848477926 | Laudatory | Full of or giving praise |  | 28 |
| 13848477927 | Loquacious | Full of trivial conversation (talkative) | 29 | |
| 13848477928 | Lugubrious | Excessively mournful (extremely sad) |  | 30 |
| 13848477929 | Macabre | Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror |  | 31 |
| 13848477931 | Miasmic | Filled with vapor (Mirage) |  | 32 |
| 13848477932 | Mordant | Harshly ironic or sinister (rudely sarcastic) |  | 33 |
| 13848477933 | Morose | Brooding and depressed |  | 34 |
| 13848477934 | Myopic | Shortsighted; lacking imagination or foresight |  | 35 |
| 13848477937 | Obsequious | Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery (brown noser) |  | 36 |
| 13848477938 | Odious | Unequivocally detestable |  | 37 |
| 13848477940 | Omnipotent | Having unlimited power |  | 38 |
| 13848477942 | Pedantic | Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning |  | 39 |
| 13848477943 | Pejorative | Expressing disapproval | 40 | |
| 13848477944 | Pernicious | Exceedingly harmful |  | 41 |
| 13848477945 | Pithy | Concise and full of meaning (meaningful) |  | 42 |
| 13848477947 | Poignant | Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings |  | 43 |
| 13848477948 | Provocative | Serving or tending to excite or stimulate |  | 44 |
| 13848477949 | Puerile | Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity |  | 45 |
| 13848477950 | Quizzical | Perplexed |  | 46 |
| 13848477951 | Recondite | little known, abstruse (obscure) |  | 47 |
| 13848477952 | Reticent | Reluctant to draw attention to yourself by talking (timid) |  | 48 |
| 13848477953 | Reverent | Feeling or showing profound respect or veneration |  | 49 |
| 13848477954 | Reflective | characterized by deep thought, thoughtful |  | 50 |
| 13848477955 | Ribald | Humorously vulgar (crass) |  | 51 |
| 13848477956 | Sardonic | Disdainfully or ironically humorous |  | 52 |
| 13848477957 | Seductive | Tending to entice into a desired action or state |  | 53 |
| 13848477959 | Specious | Plausible but false (false hope) |  | 54 |
| 13848477960 | Succinct | Briefly giving the gist of something (summary) |  | 55 |
| 13848477961 | Supercilious | Having or showing arrogant superiority to (pompous) |  | 56 |
| 13848477962 | Timorous | Timid by nature or revealing timidity |  | 57 |
| 13848477963 | Ubiquitous | Being present everywhere at once (over used) |  | 58 |
| 13848477964 | Unctuous | Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating (flattering) |  | 59 |
| 13848477965 | Vehement | Marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions (extremely emotional) |  | 60 |
| 13848477966 | Visceral | relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect |  | 61 |
| 13848477967 | Vitriolic | Harsh, bitter, or malicious in tone |  | 62 |
| 13848477968 | Volatile | Liable to lead to sudden change or violence (vicious/ dangerous) |  | 63 |
| 13848477969 | Zealous | Marked by active interest and enthusiasm (enthusiastic) |  | 64 |