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Rep-Ter Flashcards

1
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Repast

A

meal or mealtime; feast

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Replete

A

abundantly supplied; complete; full

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Repose

A

relaxation; leisure; tranquility

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Reprobate

A

unprincipled or evil person; depraved individual; person hardened by sin

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Repudiate

A

roughly go against, deny truth or validity of

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Requite

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to return or repay; compensate

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Rescind

A

take away or take back; nullify; revoke

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Restive

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impatient, uneasy, or restless

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Reticent

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reserved, modest

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Ribald

A

humorous in a vulgar way

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Rococo

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very highly ornamented; relating to an 18th century artistic style of elaborate ornamentation

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Sacrosanct

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extremely sacred; beyond criticism; inviolable

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Salubrious

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healthful; therapeutic; curative

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Sanction

A

officially authorize; agree to; approve

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Sanguine

A

ruddy; cheerfully optimistic

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Sardonic

A

cynical; scornfully mocking

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Scintilla

A

trace amount; speck

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Sedition

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behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder against the state

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Seraphic

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angelic; sweet

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Sinecure

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a well-playing job or office that requires little or no work

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Slake

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to calm down or moderate

22
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Sobriquet

A

nickname; alias

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Solecism

A

grammatical mistake

24
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Solicitous

A

full of concern or fear; eager; extremely careful; apprehensive

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Soporific

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causing sleep or lethargy

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Spartan

A

highly self-disciplined; frugal; austere

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Specious

A

deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious

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Sportive

A

frolicsome; playful

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Staid

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sedate; respectable, unadventurous

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Stentorian

A

extremely loud

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Stint

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be frugal; set limits; be thrifty; be sparing

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Stipulate

A

make express conditions; arrange specifically; expressly demand

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Stolid

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unemotional; lacking sensitivity

34
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Stratagem

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trick designed to deceive an enemy

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Succor

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assistance and support in times of hardship and distress

36
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Supplant

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to replace by force; to take the place of

37
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Supposition

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something that is supposed; assumption; surmise

38
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Sybaritic

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self-indulgent

39
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Syncopation

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temporary irregularity in musical rhythm

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Tacit

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done without using words; implicit

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Taciturn

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silent; not talkative

42
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Tangential

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digressing; diverting

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Tawdry

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gaudy, cheap, or showy

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Tenebrous

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dark, shadowy, obscure

45
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Tenuous

A

having little substance or strength; thin, threadlike, weak; flimsy

46
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Terrestrial

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earthly; down-to-earth; commonplace

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