Flashcards: AP Lit Tone Words
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msletter on January 29, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 aloof | not emotionally involved, at a distance |
| apathetic | uncaring |
| ambivalent | having mixed feelings, could go either way |
| audacious | recklessly bold or contemptuous; |
| Bellicose | inclined or eager to fight |
| callous | uncaring, or feeling no emotion |
| condescending | with an air of superiority, talking down to |
| contemptuous | lacking respect, derisive |
| caustic | harshly sarcastic |
| cautionary | prudent forethought |
| Choleric | easily angered |
| churlish | boorish, rude |
| cynical | distrustful (like Grant R.) |
| demoralized | discourage |
| diffident | reserved, unassertive |
| disdainful | scorn, despise |
| didactic | intending to instruct |
| derisive | insulting and condescending |
| earnest | heartfelt and serious |
| effusive | overflowing and demonstrative |
| enervating | to deprive of force or strength |
| elegiac | sorrowful lamentation |
| empathetic | sensitivity, relating to another's emotions |
| erudite | scholarly |
| Facetious | sarcastic |
| fatuous | foolish or insane |
| forthright | direct and outspoken |
| flippant | frivolously disrespectful |
| frivolous | carefree and unconcerned |
| gauche | lacking social grace, sensitivity or acuteness |
| hubristic | to be exessively prideful or arrogant (not a real word meaning to pertain to hubris) |
| incredulous | skeptical and unbelieving |
| incensed | full of rage |
| indignant | self-rightously angry |
| intimate | personal and emotional |
| jejune | immature or childish |
| jovial | hearty conviviality and good cheer |
| kowtowing | to act in an obsequious manner |
| laudatory | praise |
| laissez-faire | laid back, unwilling to get involved |
| lugubrious | mournful, dismal, or gloomy |
| morose | ill-humored, very down |
| malicious | vicious, wanton, or mischievous |
| mordant | caustic or sarcastic in a mean way |
| Nihilistic | totally rejecting of established laws or institutions. |
| obsequious | overly obedient, dutiful, brown-nosing, fawning |
| omnipotent | all mighty or infinite in power; all-knowing |
| patronizing | Talking down to, conveying experience to one who has none |
| pompous | stuck up, considering self better than everyone else |
| poignant | producing keen or strong emotion; totally touching |
| provocative | inciting, stimulating, irritating |
| quizzical | questioning, ridiculing, or chaffing |
| reticent | reluctant or restrained |
| reverent | deeply respectful |
| reflective | meditative or deliberative |
| resigned | passive, accepting as inevitable |
| ribald | abusive, or irreverent; vulgar or indecent |
| sardonic | scornful derision, mocking, cynical |
| seductive | enticing, beguiling, captivating |
| sentimental | emotional attachment |
| supercilious | haughty, disdainful or contemptuous |
| unctuous | smug, oily (verbally that is) or excessively pious |
| vehement | with great energy or exertion, with great emphasis and passion |
| volatile | tending or threatening to break out into open violence |
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