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AP Literature Tone Vocab
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Subjects
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english
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ap
,
literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Insulting and condescending
derisive
jovial
condescending
poignant
2. Intending to instruct
didactic
diffident
laissez-faire
resigned
3. Scorn - despise
indignant
jejune
patronizing
disdainful
4. Hearty conviviality and good cheer
laudatory
derisive
supercilious
jovial
5. Skeptical and unbelieving
intimate
apathetic
malicious
incredulous
6. Sorrowful lamentation
contemptuous
lugubrious
elegiac
indignant
7. Reserved - unassertive
laissez-faire
disdainful
diffident
supercilious
8. With an air of superiority - talking down to
churlish
condescending
morose
incensed
9. Meditative or deliberative
didactic
reflective
earnest
supercilious
10. Vicious - wanton - or mischievous
supercilious
gauche
didactic
malicious
11. Enticing - beguiling - captivating
derisive
seductive
Choleric
vehement
12. Tending or threatening to break out into open violence
demoralized
gauche
volatile
morose
13. Not emotionally involved - at a distance
sardonic
callous
forthright
aloof
14. Lacking social grace - sensitivity or acuteness
vehement
gauche
omnipotent
lugubrious
15. Self-rightously angry
Nihilistic
obsequious
erudite
indignant
16. Frivolously disrespectful
Bellicose
intimate
provocative
flippant
17. Inclined or eager to fight
empathetic
contemptuous
Bellicose
kowtowing
18. To be exessively prideful or arrogant
didactic
frivolous
volatile
hubristic
19. To act in an obsequious manner
demoralized
vehement
gauche
kowtowing
20. Immature or childish
didactic
churlish
jejune
cautionary
21. Emotional attachment
reverent
contemptuous
sardonic
sentimental
22. With great energy or exertion - with great emphasis and passion
erudite
pompous
vehement
ambivalent
23. Prudent forethought
pompous
ambivalent
cautionary
audacious
24. Haughty - disdainful or contemptuous
sardonic
supercilious
laudatory
poignant
25. Abusive - or irreverent; vulgar or indecent
ribald
sardonic
cautionary
obsequious
26. Laid back - unwilling to get involved
disdainful
laissez-faire
demoralized
poignant
27. Harshly sarcastic
flippant
caustic
diffident
lugubrious
28. Scornful derision - mocking - cynical
morose
contemptuous
sardonic
effusive
29. Producing keen or strong emotion; totally touching
disdainful
fatuous
poignant
laissez-faire
30. Praise
caustic
laudatory
kowtowing
churlish
31. Full of rage
incredulous
didactic
laudatory
incensed
32. Questioning - ridiculing - or chaffing
quizzical
laissez-faire
derisive
hubristic
33. Scholarly
erudite
enervating
frivolous
omnipotent
34. Talking down to - conveying experience to one who has none
vehement
lugubrious
patronizing
omnipotent
35. Carefree and unconcerned
didactic
frivolous
laudatory
gauche
36. Passive - accepting as inevitable
aloof
seductive
morose
resigned
37. Uncaring - or feeling no emotion
callous
incredulous
poignant
sentimental
38. Inciting - stimulating - irritating
provocative
seductive
diffident
omnipotent
39. Personal and emotional
cautionary
unctuous
intimate
sentimental
40. Easily angered
Choleric
Facetious
Nihilistic
morose
41. Recklessly bold or contemptuous;
Facetious
audacious
obsequious
enervating
42. Stuck up - considering self better than everyone else
laissez-faire
cynical
malicious
pompous
43. Caustic or sarcastic in a mean way
empathetic
callous
mordant
diffident
44. Foolish or insane
provocative
Bellicose
fatuous
caustic
45. Uncaring
apathetic
ribald
didactic
kowtowing
46. Distrustful (like Grant R.)
laissez-faire
cynical
resigned
sentimental
47. Overly obedient - dutiful - brown-nosing - fawning
caustic
obsequious
elegiac
indignant
48. Ill-humored - very down
derisive
morose
sardonic
seductive
49. All mighty or infinite in power; all-knowing
aloof
omnipotent
condescending
incredulous
50. Overflowing and demonstrative
Bellicose
laissez-faire
derisive
effusive
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