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Tone Vocabulary
vocabulary words expressing tone
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English
11th Grade
11/21/2006
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Sardonic
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Sarcastic (mocking)
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scornful
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contemptious
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satiric
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Sarcastic (satire)
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vituperative
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verbally abusive
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scathing
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harming
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facetious
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joking (often innapropriately)
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resigned
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submissive, content
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objective
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unbiased
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wistful
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longing, yearning
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pedantic
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minute detail, especially in academics
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didactic
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intenting to teach a moral lesson
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disdainful
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displeased, scornful
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laudatory
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praise-giving
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idyllic
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simple, rustic
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reverent
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respectful
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irreverent
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disrespectful
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lugubrious
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sorrow, mourning
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elegaic
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sorrow, lamentation
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macabre
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ghastly, gory
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maudlin
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foolishly sentimental
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jingoistic
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patriotic (bellicose chauvenism)
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flippant
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shallow, disrespectful
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cynical
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distrustful (of all man)
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