Tone Words

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Accusatory

Back 1

Charging of wrong doing

Front 2

Apathetic

Back 2

Indifferent due to lack of energy or concern

Front 3

Awe

Back 3

Solemn wonder

Front 4

Bitter

Back 4

Exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain and grief

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Cynical

Back 5

Questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people

Front 6

Condensation

Back 6

Condescending- a feeling of superiority

Front 7

Callous

Back 7

Unfeeling, insensitive to feelings of others

Front 8

Contemplative

Back 8

Studying, thinking reflecting of a issue

Front 9

Critical

Back 9

Finding fault

Front 10

Choleric

Back 10

Hot tempered, easily angered

Front 11

Contemptuous

Back 11

Showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks respect

Front 12

Caustic

Back 12

Intense use of sarcasm; stinging, biting

Front 13

Conventional

Back 13

Lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality

Front 14

Disdainful

Back 14

Scornful

Front 15

Didactic

Back 15

Author attempts to educate or instruct the reader

Front 16

Derisive

Back 16

Ridiculing, mocking

Front 17

Earnest

Back 17

Intense, a sincere state of mind

Front 18

Erudite

Back 18

Learned, polished, scholarly

Front 19

Fanciful

Back 19

Using the imagination

Front 20

Forthright

Back 20

Directly frank without hesitation

Front 21

Gloomy

Back 21

Darkness, sadness, rejection

Front 22

Haughty

Back 22

Proud and vain to the point of arrogance

Front 23

Indignant

Back 23

Marked by anger aroused by injustice

Front 24

Intimate

Back 24

Very familiar

Front 25

Judgmental

Back 25

Authoritative and often having critical opinions

Front 26

Jovial

Back 26

Happy

Front 27

Lyrical

Back 27

Expressing a poet’s inner feelings; emotional; full of images; song-like

Front 28

Matter-of-fact

Back 28

Accepting of conditions; not fanciful or emotional

Front 29

Meta-critical

Back 29

Self referentiality

Front 30

Mocking

Back 30

Treating with contempt or ridicule

Front 31

Morose

Back 31

Gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent

Front 32

Malicious

Back 32

Purposely hurtful

Front 33

Objective

Back 33

An unbiased view-able to leave personal judgments aside

Front 34

Optimistic

Back 34

Hopeful, cheerful

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Obsequious

Back 35

Polite and obedient in order to gain something

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Pedantic

Back 36

Ostentatiously learned

Front 37

Patronizing

Back 37

Air of condescension

Front 38

Pessimistic

Back 38

Seeing the worst side of things; no hope

Front 39

Quizzical

Back 39

Odd, eccentric, amusing

Front 40

Ribald

Back 40

Offensive in speech or gesture

Front 41

Reverent

Back 41

Treating a subject with honor and respect

Front 42

Ridiculing

Back 42

Slightly contemptuous banter; making fun of

Front 43

Reflective

Back 43

Illustrating innermost thoughts and emotions

Front 44

Sarcastic

Back 44

Sneering, caustic

Front 45

Sardonic

Back 45

Scornfully and bitterly sarcastic

Front 46

Satiric

Back 46

Ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach

Front 47

Sincere

Back 47

Without deceit or pretense; genuine

Front 48

Solemn

Back 48

Deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection

Front 49

Sanguine

Back 49

Optimistic, cheerful

Front 50

Whimsical

Back 50

Odd, strange, fantastic; fun