AC Tone Words 16-30
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Created by:
keithpringle on July 16, 2012
Description:
More interesting and specific vocabulary for descriptions of tone and voice
Classes:
Pringle's Period 7, Pringle's Period 4, Pringle's Period 6, Pringle's Period 5, Pringle's Period 2
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15 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 sanguine | optimistic; cheerful; hopeful; of the color of blood; red |
| narcissistic | conceited; having excessive self-love or self-admiration; |
| jubilant | showing great joy, rejoicing, exultant |
| enamored | inspired with love; charmed; captivated |
| saturnine | heavy; dull; sullen; in a gloomy or sluggish mood; morose |
| acerbic | sour; severe; like acid in temper, mood, or tone |
| vehement | showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense |
| choleric | hot-tempered; bad-tempered; irritable; easily angered |
| insipid | uninteresting; unchallenging; lacking taste; bland |
| esoteric | hard to understand; understood by only a select few; peculiar |
| moralistic | self-righteous; imposing a system of belief on others; preachy |
| idiomatic | language peculiar to or characteristic of a particular culture or dialect |
| trite | overused and cliched; commonplace; hackneyed |
| rancorous | hateful or harmful; marked by deep-seated ill will |
| trepidatious | afraid and overly cautious; fearful |
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