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AP English Language Tone Vocabulary

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Contemptuous

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The feeling that something is beneath you. Scornful, Mocking, or Snide

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Pensive

Front

Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought

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Idiosyncratic

Front

Peculiar or individual

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Strident

Front

Loud and harsh

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Forthright

Front

direct and outspoken; straightforward and honest.

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Sanctimonious

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Show of being morally superior to other people.

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Pedantic

Front

Ostentatious in one's learning

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Conciliatory

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Making or willing to make concession or pacify

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Rhapsodic

Front

Feeling great rapture or delight

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Moralizing

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Comment of issues of right and wrong, typically with an unfounded air of superiority

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Pejorative

Front

Expressing contempt or disapproval

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Vexed

Front

irritated or annoyed

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Paradoxical

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Absurd or self-contradictory

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Piquant

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Having a pleasantly sharp taste or appetizing flavor

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Pompous

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affectedly and irritatingly grand, solemn, or self-important.

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Embittered

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cause (someone) to feel bitter or resentful.

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Grandiose

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Impressive or magnificent in appearance or style

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Formulaic

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Containing a verbal formula or set forms of words

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Haughty

Front

arrogantly superior and disdainful

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Derisive

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Expressing contempt or ridicule.

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Lackadaisical

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lacking enthusiasm and determination

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Didactic

Front

Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive; manner of teaching, to teach someone in a patronizing way.

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Frivolous

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lack of seriousness or sense

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Austere

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Sever or strict manor, attitude, or appearance

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Ostentatious

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Vulgar or pretentious display. Designed to impress or attract notice.

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Hackneyed

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Lacking significance through having been overused

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Querulous

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complaining in a petulant or whining manner.

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Audacious

Front

bold or daring; brave and reckless

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Bucolic

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Relating to the pleasant aspects of countryside and country life.

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Elegiac

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Having a mournful quality

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Glib

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fluent and easy, often in a thoughtless, deceptive, or insincere way

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Maudlin

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Tearfully or weakly emotional

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Zealous

Front

full of, characterized by, or due to zeal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent.

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Trite

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Overused and consequently of little importance

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