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Contemplate

Think intently and at length

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Sanguine

Confidently optimistic and cheerful

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Buoyant

Tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas

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Gloomy

Depressingly dark

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Hypocritical

Professing feelings or virtues one does not have

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Obsequious

Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

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Dogmatic

Pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

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Peremptory

Putting an end to all debate or action

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Condescending

Characteristic of those who treat others with arrogance

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Patronizing

Characteristic of those who treat others with condescension

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Superficially

In a superficial manner

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Disdainful

Showing arrogant superiority to those one views as unworthy

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Partisan

A fervent and even militant proponent of something

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Bigoted

Blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion

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Prejudiced

Showing bias or bigotry or influenced by preconceived ideas

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Chauvinistic

Fanatically patriotic

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Apathetic

Showing little or no emotion or animation

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Populist

As the name says

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Grandiose

As the name suggests

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Commiserating

This type of tone is used to express grief or show sympathy for a person or a group of people suffering from prejudiced practices or cultural norms. The author intends to familiarize reader with the trauma undergone by the sufferers

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Pedestrian

When a passage appears neither interesting nor complex to you

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Detached

This is a general highlight of an event. Not too descriptive

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Judgmental

This is typically used for passages when the author expresses his views on some issues and takes a stand-is this person or issue right or wrong? Is this good or bad? Is someone intelligent or dumb? These are all judgments. Therefore

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Respectful

Feeling or showing deep and solemn respect

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Facetious

Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor

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flippant

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Melancholic

Feeling or expressing pensive sadness

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suffering from or denoting a severe form of depression

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Uneasy

Causing or feeling anxiety

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troubled or uncomfortable

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Nostalgic

Feeling or inspiring nostalgia

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such as a longing for or thinking fondly of a past time or condition

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Dry

(of information

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Assertive

Having or showing a confident and forceful personality

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Regretful

Feeling or showing regret or sorrow

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Invective

Insulting

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Inspirational

Providing or showing creative or spiritual inspiration

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Objective

Broadly

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Narrative

In fact it is simply narration of events without any tone of description or analysis e.g. as the news readers simply narrate the items of news

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Ironic

Conveys a meaning that is the opposite of the actual meaning

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Ironic statements bring attention to words and phrases and show the difference between an ideal and an actual condition

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Descriptive

Description of an event – which may lead to inculcate interest among the readers and with description the piece of writing may form the opinion in optimistic