| A | B |
|---|
| accusatory | charging w/wrong doing |
| apathetic | indifferent |
| awe | solemn wonder |
| bitter | exhibiting strong animosity |
| cynical | questions basic sincerity and goodness of people |
| condescension | feeling of superiority |
| conventional | lacking spontaneity |
| disdainful | scornful |
| didactic | author attempts to educate or instruct the reader |
| fanciful | using the imagination |
| forthright | directly frank without hesitation |
| gloomy | darkness, sadness, rejection |
| haughty | proud and vain to point of arrogance |
| indignant | marked by anger aroused by injustice |
| intimate | very familiar |
| judgemental | authorative and often critical opinion |
| juvial | happy |
| lyrical | emotional; full of imagse |
| callous | unfeeling, insensitive |
| contemplative | studying, thinking, reflection on an issue |
| critical | finding fault |
| choleric | hot tempered |
| contemptuous | lack of respect |
| caustic | stinging, biting, sarcasm |
| derisive | ridiculing, mocking |
| earnest | intense and sincere state of mind |
| ervalite | learned, plished, scholarly |
| matter-of-fact | accepting, not fanciful or emotional |
| mocking | treating w/comtempt or ridicule |
| morose | gloomy, sullen, surly, despondant |
| malicious | purposely hurtful |
| objective | unbiased view |
| optimistic | hopeful, cheerful |
| obsequious | polite or obedient in hopes of gaining favor |
| patronizing | condescending |
| pessimistic | seeing the worst side of thigns |
| quizzical | odd, eccentric, amusing |
| ribald | offensive in speech or gesture |
| reverent | treating subject w/honor and respect |
| ridiculing | slightly contemtuous banter |
| sarcastic | sneering, caustic |
| sardonic | scornfully and bitterly sarcastic |
| sincere | genuine; without deceit or pretense |
| solemn | deeply earnest, grave |
| shimsical | odd, queer, fantastic |
