Vocabulary Tone Words

Calm and peaceful, with little movement or activity

• bewildered

• sluggish

• placid

• whimsical

give new energy or vigor to; renew, revitalize; restore

• desolate

• indifferent

• rejuvenated

• gleeful

tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe the worst will happen

• optimistic

• pessimistic

• mournful

• detached

not biased; treating all fairly or equally

• resentful

• accusatory

• awestruck

• impartial

grand; monumental; extremely large, important, or impressive

• gleeful

• pensive

• epic

• whimsical

bleak, empty, and bare; deprived; uninhabited

• irate

• desolate

• indifferent

• suspicious

feeling or showing deep or solemn respect

• reverent

• pensive

• optimistic

• gleeful

free from pretense, deceit, or lies; expressing genuine or true feelings

• detached

• sincere

• indifferent

• impartial

feeling or expressing bitterness or anger at having been treated unfairly

• suspicious

• pessimistic

• irate

• resentful

expressing disapproving comments or judgements

• sluggish

• suspicious

• critical

• resentful