1. Tone Vocab

2. Flowery
• Full of ornate, flashy, or grandiloquent
expressions.
• decorative like flowers.
He spoke, and loosed our heart
in tears. He laid us as we lay
at birth 31 On the cool
flowery lap of earth.
- Matthew Arnold
Of William Wordsworth.
Empedocles on Etna and
Other Poems,'Memorial
Verses, April1850', l.47^9.

3. Bombastic
• Pompous, Overblown
• bomb- a large explosion, high
sounding, grand.
• “Our quivering lances,
shaking in the air,
And bullets, like Jove's
dreadful thunderbolts,
Enroll'd in flames and fiery
smoldering mists,
Shall threat the gods more
than Cyclopean wars;
And with our sun‐bright
armor, as we march,
We'll chase the stars from
heaven, and dim their eyes
That stand and muse at our
admired arms”

4. Formal
• following or being in accord with
accepted forms, conventions or
regulations. characterized by strict
observation of forms, methodical.
• Tuxedoes, gowns.
“In looking at many small points of
difference between species,
which, as far as our ignorance
permits us to judge, seem quite
unimportant, we must not forget
that climate, food, etc., have no
doubt produced some direct
effect. It is also necessary to bear
in mind that owing to the law of
correlation, when one part varies
and the variations are
accumulated through natural
selection, other modifications,
often of the most unexpected
nature, will ensue.”
(Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species)

5. Inflammatory
• arousing passion or strong emotions
such as anger, a response to
something.
• To set light to
“All of us have suffered here, in
this country, political
oppression at the hands of
the white man, economic
exploitation at the hands of
the white man, and social
degradation at the hands of
the white man.” (Malcolm X)

6. Informal
• Informal-More appropriate for use in the
spoken language that in the written
language. casual, unofficial.
• Informal= In- not formal.
• Hey Darla! You did the
homework for Mr. Ruffin?

7. Jargon
• Jargon- Nonsensical,
incoherent or meaningless
talk. a hybrid language or
dialect specialized or
technical language of a track.
• Blue sky thinking – This is a
visionary idea without always
having a practical
application.
• Think outside the box – This
means to not limit your
thinking; it encourages.
creativity with regards to your
job description.
• The helicopter view – This is
simply an overview.
• Get our ducks in a row – Order
and organize everything
efficiently and effectively.

8. Loaded
• heavy with meaning or emotional
importance.
• loaded= full of something; loaded with
cash
• "You'll shatter her." "potent
chieftain."

9. Lyrical
• Expressing a deep personal emotional or observations, highly enthusiastic.
• Lyrics to a song, telling a story.
• “And I'd give up forever to touch you,
'Cause I know that you feel me somehow,
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever
be, And I don't want to go home right
now..”

10. Melodious
• agreeable to hear, containing a pleasing tune or melody (a pleasing
succession of arrangement of sounds, structure with respect to the
arrangement of such tones)
• Melody, a song
• "The thought which teaches and edifies;
the rhythm which appeals to our love of
regularity; and the melody which gives
emotional pleasure."

11. Monosyllabic
• Having only one syllable
• Mono= one, syllable
• The cat did not run from the
dog.
• No
• Move

12. Nostalgic
•A bitter Sweet longing for things. persons,
or situations of the past. Being homesick.
“Where did I go wrong, I lost a
friend, Somewhere along in the
bitterness, And I would have
stayed up with you all night,
Had I known how to save a life”

13. Offensive
• An attitude of position of attack. causing anger, displeasure, resent of affront.
• Off as in off putting, fence as in shield for attack.
• “Gingrich called upon the President to fire
Energy Secretary Steven Chu who he feels
is ‘anti-energy’ and is causing the
American people to suffer with high
gasoline prices”

14. Ornate
• Flashy, showy, or florid in style of
manner. excessively ornamental
(decorative)
• Overly done.
• She believed that poets
usually undervalued prose;
that its "precision, economy
of statement, logic" could
"liberate" the imagination

15. Passionate
•Expressing or showing strong emotions;
choleric, strong sexual desires or amorous.
•Pass as in go beyond, so go beyond
normal emotion.

16. Political
•Relating to or involving characteristics of
politics, parties or politicians.
•Politics as in Government

17. Patriotic
• feeling, expressing or inspired by love and
devotion for one's country.
• Pat as in hat, as in former President
Abraham Lincoln's hat, who is on the
United States five dollar bill, which makes
me think of the United Sates, our country.
• “Oh, say can you see by the
dawn's early light. What so
proudly we hailed at the
twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and
bright stars thru the perilous
fight, O'er the ramparts we
watched were so gallantly
streaming? And the rocket's
red glare, the bombs bursting
in air, Gave proof through the
night that our flag was still
there. Oh, say does that star-
spangled banner yet wave.
O'er the land of the free and
the home of the brave?”

18. Romantic
•Displaying
expressions of love
•romance, Romeo and Juliet

19. Sentimental
• Affectedly or extravagantly emotional resulting from
or colored by emotion rather than realism or logic.
• Sense as in touching, too feel. Sentiment
• “World Wrestling Entertainment is deeply
saddened to report that today Chris Benoit and
his family were found dead in their home. There
are no further details at this time, other than the
Benoit family residence is currently being
investigated by local authorities. Tonight’s Raw
on USA Network will serve as a tribute to Chris
Benoit and his family. WWE extends its sincerest
thoughts and prayers to the Benoit family’s
relatives and loved ones in this time of tragedy"

20. Shocking
•highly disturbing emotionally. very vivid or
intense in tone. highly offensive; indecent
of distasteful.
•Shock, surprise

21. Subdued
• To conquer and subjugate, vanquish. To make less intense or prominent; tone down.
To quiet or bring down under control by physical force or persuasion.
• Sub- to place under, to make calm.

22. Tame
•Submissive,docile, to tone down; soften.
•housecat, kind of of like trained or
domesticated.

23. Technical
•Belonging or related to a given subject.
abstract of theoretical. according to
principle, formal rather than practical.
•technique, skill

24. Unifying
• To make into or become a unit, consolidate.
• Uni- one, to bring together.
• “I have a dream that one day, down in
Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its
governor having his lips dripping with the
words of interposition and nullification; one
day right there in Alabama, little black
boys and black girls will be able to join
hands with little white boys and white girls
as sisters and brothers.”

25. Uppity
• Self-important; arrogant.
• Up-above others
• "Don't you have a country? Don't you live
in the world? What the hell are you?
You're not even an animal, no animal kills
his own, what are you?"