Advanced Vocabulary: Emotions, Attitudes, and Descriptions

Callous

Being hardened and thickened, having calluses; feeling no emotion, heartless, unfeeling; feeling or showing no sympathy for others, unsympathetic, hard-hearted.

Disdainful

Full of or expressing disdain; sneering, contemptuous.

Derisive

Expressing or causing derision; mocking, scathing.

Indignant

Filled with or marked by indignation; offended, annoyed.

Patronize

To adopt an air of condescension toward; to treat haughtily or coolly; to demean, to belittle.

Reverent

Expressing or characterized by reverence; worshipful, respectful, deferential.

Reflective

Of or pertaining to reflection; deep, thoughtful, insightful, deliberative.

Reticent

Disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved, quiet, uncommunicative; reluctant or restrained.

Solemn

Marked by grave sedateness and earnest sobriety; sober, serious; marked by the invocation of a religious sanction.

Sanguine

Marked by eager hopefulness; confidently optimistic; bloodred.