Tone Vocabulary Words

Satiric

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Whimsical

Odd, strange, fantastic; fun

Dramatic

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Learned

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Informative

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Somber

dark, gloomy; depressed or melancholy in spirit

Urgent

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Confident

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Mock-Heroic

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Objective

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Diffident

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Ironic

suggesting an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually happens

Didactic

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Petty

(adj.) unimportant, trivial; narrow-minded; secondary in rank, minor

Factual

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Restrained

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Elegiac

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Disdainful

showing contempt or lack of respect

Lugubrious

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Pedantic

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Indignant

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Bantering

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Flippant

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Condescending

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Patronizing

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Facetious

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Clinical

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Mock-Serious

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Inflammatory

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Benevolent

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Burlesque

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Fanciful

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Detached

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Cynical

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Incisive

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Allusive

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Scornful

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Effusive

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Colloquial

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Compassion

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Impartial

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Insipid

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Pretentious

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Vibrant

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Irreverent

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Sentimental

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Moralistic

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Complimentary

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Contemptuous

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Sympathetic

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Taunting

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Concerned

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Angry

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Turgid

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Sardonic

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Contentious

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Insolent

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Candid

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Abstract

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Acerbic

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Ambivalent

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Aphoristic

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Archaic

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Banal

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Bemused

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Blithe

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Concrete

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Confessional

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Defiant

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Dispassionate

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Droll

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Earnest

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Emotive

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Enigmatic

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Euphemistic

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Florid

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Grandiloquent

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Lilting

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Matter-of-Fact

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Maudlin

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Naive

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Oratorical

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Pensive

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Petulant

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Plaintive

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Ponderous

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Provincial

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Quaint

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Redemptive

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Resigned

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Strident

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Surreal

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Tongue-in-Cheek

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Understand

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Urbane

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Vexed

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Wry

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Zealous

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