An occasional, well-paced modifier can help readers better imagine your character's voice and emotional state.
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accepting
agonized
airily
apologetic
booming
breathless
breathy
brittle
brooding
calm
careful
chime
choked
clipped
cold
controlled
cracked
crisp
croaky
curt
dead
deep
disembodied
drawl
droning
dulcet
flat
flirty
fluttery
forced
formal
frothy
ghostly
giddy
grating
gravelly
groggy
gritty
growl
gruff
guttural
halting
harsh
heated
heavy
high
high-pitched
hoarse
hollowed
honeyed
husky
icy
jarring
jittery
labored
languid
light
lifting
lofty
low
matter-of-fact
melodic
monotonous
muddy
muffled
musical
muted
nasal
panicked
panting
penetrating
peaky
pleading
pleasant
purr
quaver
quiet
quivering
raspy
raucous
reedy
ringing
rocky
rough
satiny
sassy
scratchy
screech
shallow
shrill
silvery
singsong
slurred
small
smoky
smothered
soft-spoken
sputter
squeaky
stern
strained
strangled
taut
thick
thin
throaty
tight
toneless
tuneless
twangy
uneven
velvety
vibrating
warbled
waspy
weary
weighted
wheezy
whiny
whispery
winded
wobbly
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