tone: (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
pitch: the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
potemkin: a Russian officer and politician who was a favorite of Catherine II and in 1762 helped her to seize power; when she visited the Crimea in 1787 he gave the order for sham villages to be built (1739-1791)