Tone Vocabulary Mrs. Filak We will be using these terms all year to describe the speaker’s attitude toward his subject, his TONE. Look up definitions for any words you do not know already, and keep this list in your notebook. Affectionate Aggravated Agitated Ambivalent Angry Annoyed Anxious Apathetic Apologetic Apprehensive Arrogant Artificial Austere Authoritative Bantering Bewildered Bitter Blunt Bossy Brash Brusque Calm Candid Carping Casual Censorious Cheerful Choleric Cold Compassionate Complacent Conceited Conciliatory Condescending Confident Confused Contemptuous Contentious Contradictory Cynical Defiant Dejected Delightful Depressed Derisive Derogatory Desolate Desperate Devotional Diabolic Didactic Dignified Disappointed Disdainful Disgusted Disinterested Dogmatic Doubtful Ebullient Ecstatic Effusive Elated Elegiac Empathetic Encouraging Enraged Enthusiastic Euphoric Excited Expectant Fanciful Fatalistic Fearful Fervent Flippant Foreboding Frantic Friendly Frightened Frustrated Furious Gleeful Gloomy Grave Greedy Grim Happy Harsh Haughty Hilarious Hopeless Humble Humorous Hurt Impatient Incisive Incredulous Indignant Inquisitive Intemperate Intimate Introspective Ironic Jocund Joyful Laudatory Lethargic Lighthearted Loving Lugubrious Meditative Melancholy Mirthful Miserable Mocking Modest Mournful Mysterious Nervous Nostalgic Objective Ominous Optimistic Outspoken Paranoid Passionate Pathetic Patronizing Pedantic Pensive Persuasive Pessimistic Petulant Pithy Plaintive Pleading Playful Pompous Pontifical Proud Psychotic Puckish Questioning Relaxed Reminiscent Resigned Reticent Rhapsodic Romantic Sad Sanctimonious Sanguine Sarcastic Sardonic Savage Scared Scornful Seductive Selfish Sententious Sentimental Serene Serious Silly Sinister Skeptical Smug Sober Solemn Somber Soothing Stressful Strident Suspenseful Suspicious Sympathetic Tender Tense Terse Thoughtful Timorous Uncaring Unconcerned Uneasy Unhappy Unsympathetic Upset Vibrant Vitriolic Whimsical Wistful Witty Worried Wry Zealous