AP Lang Tone Vocab SIT ANYWHERE TAKE OUT

AP Lang– Tone Vocab SIT ANYWHERE & TAKE OUT TONE VOCAB NOTE PAGE FOR A QUICK REVIEW

2 -27 -2020 Warm-Up Sit with your same partner from Tuesday when you reviewed the 2019 AP RA student exemplars Take out your Tone Vocab notes for our warm-up

Week 1 Vocab • Bitter (adj)- harsh or corrosive • Laudatory (adj) - full of or giving praise • Contentious (adj)- Quarrelsome, argumentative • Elegiac (adj) – mournful, sorrowful • Disgusted (adj) – repulsive, distasteful • Condescending (adj) – arrogant, superior • Compassionate (adj) - empathetic •

Week 2 Vocab Impassive (adj) – without feeling Determined (adj) – motivated; fixated on a goal Colloquial (adj) – informal speech; conversational Scholarly (adj) – qualities of learned, academic Objective (adj) – without bias Pedantic (adj) – vain display of learning, detailed Didactic (adj) – instructive, educating

Week 3 Vocab Effusive (adj) – gushy, unrestrained Disdainful (adj) – scornful, contemptuous Patronizing (adj) – offensively condescending Ridiculing (adj) – derisive, mocking Disparaging (adj) – insulting, derogative Astonished (adj) – amazed, surprised Apprehensive (adj) – uneasy, fearful

Week 4 Vocab Nostalgic (adj) – longing, yearning for the past Resigned (adj) – acceptance of despair Bombastic (adj) – arrogant and pompous Cynical (adj) – distrust of human nature Mournful (adj) – sorrowful Deferential (adj) -- respectful regard Erudite (adj) – learned, scholarly

Week 5 Vocab Sarcastic (adj) – mocking, scornful humor Romantic (adj) – fanciful, impractical Sardonic (adj) – bitterly sarcastic, mocking Hostile (adj) – showing enmity (hostility) Reverent (adj) – showing profound respect Pretentious (adj) – creating an appearance of exaggerated importance

Week 6 Vocab Enumeration (n): the action of mentioning a number of things one by one Dismiss (v. ): treat as unworthy of serious consideration Suggest (v. ): state or express indirectly Imply (v. ): suggest (something) as a logical consequence Assert (v. ): state a fact or belief confidently and forcefully Acknowledge (V. ): accept or admit the existence or truth of

Week 6 Vocab Enumeration (n): the action of mentioning a number of things one by one Dismiss (v. ): treat as unworthy of serious consideration Suggest (v. ): state or express indirectly Imply (v. ): suggest (something) as a logical consequence Assert (v. ): state a fact or belief confidently and forcefully Acknowledge (V. ): accept or admit the existence or truth of