R-S Flashcards

(41 cards)

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Rancorous

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Characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment

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Ramify

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To be divided or subdivided, branch out

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Rapacious

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Voracious, greedy, plundering, subsisting on prey

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Rapacity

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Avarice or the practice of extorting or exacting by injustice

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Rarefy

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To make or become thin less dense, refine

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Rebus

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Riddle, a representation of words by pictures or symbols that sound like the words

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Recalcitrant

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Obstinately defiant of authority or guidance, difficult to manage

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Recapitulate

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To summarize, to repeat concisely

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Recondite

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Hidden, concealed, difficult to understand, obscure

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Reconnoiter

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To engage in reconnaissance, make a preliminary inspection of

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Recumbent

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Meaning, resting, prone

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Redolent

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Fragrant, suggestive or evocative

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Redoubtable

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Awe-inspiring, worthy of honor

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Refulgent

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Radiant, shiny, brilliant

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Relegate

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To forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position

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Repine

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To feel or express dejection or discontent, Long for

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Repudiate

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To refuse to have anything to do with, disown

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Rhetoric

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The art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion

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Risible

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Hilarious, provoking laughter

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Rubric

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authoritative rule, heading, title, or category

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Sagacious

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Having sound judgment, perceptive, wise

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Salacious

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Appealing to or causing sexual desire, bawdy

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Salubrious

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Promoting health or well-being

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Salutary

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Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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Sanctimony
Self-righteousness, pretended piety
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Sanguine
Cheerful, confident, optimistic
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Saturnine
Gloomy, dark, Sullen Morose
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Scurvy
Contemptible, despicable
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Sedulous
Diligent, persistent, hard-working
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Sere
Withered, arid
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Sinecure
Position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income
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Sodden
Soaked or drenched, unimaginative, dull
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Sophistry
Fallacious reasoning; Plausible but faulty logic
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Soporific
Causing drowsiness, tending to induce sleep
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Specious
Seeming true, but actually false, misleadingly attractive
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Splenetic
Bad tempered, irritable
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Spurious
Lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfeit
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Stentorian
Extremely loud and powerful
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Stolid
Calm, impassive
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Querulous
Characterized by constant complaining or whining
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Quixotic
Unpredictable and inpractical