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AP Literature Tone Vocab
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Subjects
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english
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ap
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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. Skeptical and unbelieving
incredulous
sardonic
Bellicose
kowtowing
2. Full of rage
didactic
incensed
seductive
sardonic
3. Self-rightously angry
sardonic
indignant
flippant
reverent
4. Ill-humored - very down
fatuous
earnest
morose
poignant
5. With great energy or exertion - with great emphasis and passion
ambivalent
demoralized
hubristic
vehement
6. Scorn - despise
Bellicose
disdainful
empathetic
sardonic
7. Meditative or deliberative
Nihilistic
jejune
kowtowing
reflective
8. Emotional attachment
apathetic
sentimental
reverent
malicious
9. Personal and emotional
intimate
aloof
empathetic
flippant
10. With an air of superiority - talking down to
condescending
incensed
frivolous
volatile
11. Reserved - unassertive
morose
diffident
resigned
disdainful
12. Totally rejecting of established laws or institutions.
laissez-faire
Nihilistic
Facetious
ribald
13. Heartfelt and serious
laudatory
intimate
earnest
hubristic
14. Inclined or eager to fight
sardonic
Nihilistic
Bellicose
sentimental
15. Hearty conviviality and good cheer
jovial
enervating
empathetic
cautionary
16. Scornful derision - mocking - cynical
fatuous
indignant
sardonic
Nihilistic
17. To deprive of force or strength
kowtowing
resigned
Bellicose
enervating
18. Lacking social grace - sensitivity or acuteness
supercilious
ribald
gauche
Nihilistic
19. Boorish - rude
reticent
audacious
churlish
lugubrious
20. Carefree and unconcerned
laissez-faire
incensed
seductive
frivolous
21. Sensitivity - relating to another's emotions
callous
mordant
empathetic
cautionary
22. To be exessively prideful or arrogant
sentimental
hubristic
supercilious
frivolous
23. Tending or threatening to break out into open violence
intimate
morose
volatile
laissez-faire
24. Enticing - beguiling - captivating
seductive
supercilious
disdainful
vehement
25. Sarcastic
Facetious
Nihilistic
enervating
laudatory
26. Overly obedient - dutiful - brown-nosing - fawning
ambivalent
obsequious
elegiac
didactic
27. Recklessly bold or contemptuous;
indignant
cautionary
poignant
audacious
28. Haughty - disdainful or contemptuous
supercilious
fatuous
gauche
aloof
29. Foolish or insane
laudatory
fatuous
laissez-faire
sentimental
30. All mighty or infinite in power; all-knowing
reticent
lugubrious
omnipotent
caustic
31. Frivolously disrespectful
vehement
mordant
intimate
flippant
32. Sorrowful lamentation
morose
elegiac
hubristic
obsequious
33. To act in an obsequious manner
provocative
kowtowing
intimate
forthright
34. Caustic or sarcastic in a mean way
jovial
sardonic
Choleric
mordant
35. Lacking respect - derisive
reticent
contemptuous
intimate
erudite
36. Inciting - stimulating - irritating
gauche
frivolous
provocative
reticent
37. Scholarly
resigned
provocative
erudite
derisive
38. Stuck up - considering self better than everyone else
reverent
lugubrious
pompous
earnest
39. Prudent forethought
didactic
churlish
cautionary
aloof
40. Immature or childish
flippant
fatuous
contemptuous
jejune
41. Easily angered
Choleric
demoralized
erudite
reflective
42. Not emotionally involved - at a distance
laissez-faire
effusive
Bellicose
aloof
43. Producing keen or strong emotion; totally touching
poignant
diffident
lugubrious
aloof
44. Praise
contemptuous
laudatory
fatuous
mordant
45. Insulting and condescending
poignant
derisive
erudite
cautionary
46. Questioning - ridiculing - or chaffing
didactic
Nihilistic
flippant
quizzical
47. Smug - oily (verbally that is) or excessively pious
poignant
aloof
unctuous
disdainful
48. Uncaring
laudatory
quizzical
poignant
apathetic
49. Vicious - wanton - or mischievous
elegiac
ribald
didactic
malicious
50. Uncaring - or feeling no emotion
callous
reverent
fatuous
reticent