<p>AP English 3/ Sample & Congdon/ 2012</p><p>TONE WORDS #3</p><p>Macabre: gruesome and horrifying; ghastly; of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer or uglier aspect.</p><p>Melancholy: a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression; sober thoughtfulness; pensive.</p><p>Miffed: a petulant, bad-tempered mood; huffy.</p><p>Mortified: shamed, humiliated; possessing wounded pride.</p><p>Nostalgic: longing for things, persons, or situations of the past, especially in a bittersweet way.</p><p>Obfuscatory: confusing and bewildering, often intentionally.</p><p>Obsequious: characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning; compliant or deferential.</p><p>Ominous: portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious.</p><p>Opprobrious: Expressing contemptuous reproach; scornful or abusive.</p><p>Parochial: very limited or narrow in scope or outlook; provincial.</p><p>Pedantic: narrowly, stodgily, and often ostentatiously learned; overly concerned with book learning and formal rules.</p><p>Pejorative: having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force.</p><p>Perturbed: showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty; a state of agitated confusion marked by worry and anxiety.</p><p>Pessimistic: marked by a tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view:</p><p>Poignant: painfully affecting the feelings; piercing; profoundly moving; touching.</p><p>Polemical: controversial and argumentative.</p><p>Prosaic: commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative; straight-forward. Prudent: Wise in handling practical matters; exercising good judgment or common sense.</p><p>Rarefied: extremely high or elevated; lofty; of, belonging to, or appealing to an exclusive group.</p><p>Restive: Uneasily impatient under restriction, opposition, criticism, or delay; resistant to control; stubborn.</p><p>Sardonic: disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking.</p><p>Sententious: given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous; abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims; Terse and energetic in expression.</p><p>Sober: marked by seriousness, gravity, solemnity, etc., as of demeanor, speech.</p><p>Strident: characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound; commanding attention by a loud or obtrusive quality.</p><p>Stupefied: affected with sudden and great wonder or surprise; struck dumb with astonishment.</p><p>Whimsical: given to whimsy or fanciful notions; capricious; playful in an odd and light-hearted way.</p><p>Wistful: Full of wishful yearning or longing, often tinged with sadness or melancholy; pensive.</p><p>Wry: Dryly humorous, often with a touch of irony.</p><p>Zany: ludicrously or whimsically comical; clownish.</p><p>Zealous: marked by fervent partisanship for a person, a cause, or an ideal; ardently active, devoted, or diligent</p><p>*Words removed from master list: Mordant, Mundane, Pedestrian, Peeved, Pensive, Platitudinous, Sarcastic, Sycophantic, Vitriolic, Vituperative.</p>