AP LANG TONE WORDS PART 1

Abhorring

detesting, loathing

Abstruse

difficult to understand

Acerbic

harsh or severe

Admonishing

cautioning, advising, or counseling against something

Ambivalent

uncertainty or fluctuation between two choices

Ardent

characterized by intense feeling of devotion

Authoritarian

accustomed to exercising authority; dictatorial

Belligerent

warlike

Bemused

bewildered or confused

Benevolent

characterized by goodwill

Blithe

joyous, cheerful

Brusque

abrupt, blunt

Burlesque

comic vulgarization or lofty material or treatment of ordinary material with mock dignity

Capricious

flighty, erratic

Caustic

biting, corrosive

Censorious

severely critical

Choleric

irritable, easily angered

Complimentary

flattering

Conciliatory

appeasing, overcoming the distrust of

Condemnatory

expressing strong disapproval

Contemptuous

disdainful, scornful

Contentious

quarrelsome, causing controversy

Curt

rudely brief or abrupt

Derisive

contemptuous, mocking

Despairing

overcome with futility or defeat

Didactic

intended for instruction

Diffident

lacking confidence, timid

Dogmatic

arrogantly opinionated

Domineering

overbearing, tyrannical

Dubious

wavering or hesitating in opinion

Ebullient

overflowing with fervor; high-spirited

Effusive

demonstrative, lacking reserve

Elegiac

expressing sorrow or lamentation

Eloquent

using fluent and forceful speech

Erudite

learned or scholarly

Eulogistic

praising highly, especially in a formal eulogy

Euphoric

feeling of happiness that may border on mania

Exhortatory

advising, urging, or cautioning earnestly

Facetious

not meant to be taken literally

Farcical

ludicrous, absurd, mocking

Fatalistic

acceptance of all things as inevitable

Flippant

frivolously disrespectful