AP English tone words

Admiring- Feeling or showing admiration.
Angry- Feeling or showing anger, dark.
Apprehensive- In fear or dread of possible evil or harm. Mentally upset over pending things. Quick to understand.
Bantering- Cleverly amusing tone, facetious, teasing.
Benevolent- Intending or showing kindness.
Biting- Sharp, stinging tone.
Bitter- Harsh or corrosive.
Candid- Openly straightforward and direct, without reserve or secretiveness.
Clinical- detached and unemotional.
Colloquial- Informal spoken language or conversation.
Compassionate- Shares the suffering of, showing or having compassion.
Complimentary- Conveying or resembling a compliment.
Concerned- Feeling or showing worry or solicitude.
Condescending- Patronizing, sarcastic, rude.
Confident- Having or marked by confidence or assurance, persuaded of, very sure.
Contemptuous- Extreme content, insulting, scornful, disdainful.
Cynical- Believing the worst of human nature and motives, having disbelief in selflessness of others, misanthropic.
Detached- Showing lack of emotional involvement, feeling set or kept part from others.
Determined- Strongly motivated to succeed, devoting full strength and concentrated attention.
Didactic- Instructive, didactical.
Diffident- Showing modest reserve, lacking self-confidence.
Disdainful- Having or showing arrogant superiority o and disdain of those one views as unworthy.
Disgusted- Having strong distaste from surfeit.
Dramatic- Sensational in appearance in appearance or thrilling in effect.
Ecstatic- Feeling of great rapture or delight.
Effusive- Extravagantly demonstrative, uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm, gushing.
Elegiac- expressing sorrow, usually for the past.
Facetious- Cleverly amusing in tone, bantering.
Factual- True, relating to by facts.
Fanciful- Not based on fact, unreal, notional, imaginary.
Flippant- Showing inappropriate levity, light-minded.
Hopeful- Ambitious, full of promise, bright
Impartial- Showing lack of