Vocabulary List #9 & #10: Character Traits, Tone, and Mood

Caustic

severely critical or sarcastic

Ebullient

overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited.

Elegiac

expressing sorrow or lamentation; mournful or melancholy, especially toward the dead

Empathetic

able to feel and identify with the feelings, thoughts, experiences, or attitudes of others

Facetious

not meant to be taken seriously or literally; cleverly humorous.

Incredulous

disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical

Indignant

Feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base.

Provocative

Stirring, stimulating, irritating, or vexing.

Resigned

Characterized by submissive acceptance.

Sentimental

Expressive of or appealing to tender emotions, like love, pity, or nostalgia.

Abhorrent

Horrifying and offensive to the mind.

Abject

Completely without pride or dignity; self-abasing.

Credulous

Showing a lack of judgment or experience.

Despondent

Without or almost without hope.

Ethereal

Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air.

Haughty

Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.

Imperious

Characterized by a commanding superiority.

Scrupulous

Characterized by extreme care and great effort, or having scruples arising from a sense of right and wrong..

Scurrilous

Using or given to coarse language; vulgar and evil.

Vituperative

Marked by harshly abusive criticism.