Vocabulary Words

Affecting the emotions, positive or negative

• Pompous

• Poignant

• Patronizing

• Pretentious

Offensively condescending

• Pretentious

• Poignant

• Patronizing

• Pragmatic

Hard to believe, skeptical

• Brazen

• Indignant

• Pragmatic

• Incredulous

Direct, very straight forward

• Contemptuous

• Forthright

• Ambivalent

• Reticent

Inflated, overblown, pompous

• Pompous

• Sardonic

• Taunting

• Turgid

Boldly certain of one's opinion, not ashamed

• Reticent

• Brazen

• Unabashed

• Caustic

Twisted or perverse, as in sense of humor

• Wry

• Malicious

• Didactic

• Incensed

Making an exaggerated outward show, pompous, stuck up

• Pretentious

• Patronizing

• Poignant

• Pragmatic

Shameless, bold, insolent, defiant, most of the time, negative

• Malicious

• Unabashed

• Brazen

• Caustic

Having mixed feelings about someone or something

• Pompous

• Pragmatic

• Reticent

• Ambivalent