412-442 Flashcards

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Requite

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To return/Repay

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Restive

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Restless, uneasy

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Reticent

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Silent; Reserved

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Rhetoric

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Effective writing/speaking

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Ribald

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Humorous in vulgar way

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Rococo

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Very highly ornamented

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Rustic

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Rural

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Sacrosanct

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Very sacred

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Sagacious

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Wise

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Salient

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Prominent

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Salubrious

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Healthful

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Sanguine

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Cheerfully optimistic

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Sardonic

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Cynical

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Satiate

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To satisfy

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Scintilla

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Trace amount

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Sedition

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Behavior promoting rebellion/civil disorder

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Sentient

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Seraphic

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Sweet; angelic

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Sinecure

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Well paying job with little to no work

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Slake

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To calm down or moderate

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Sobriquet

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Solecism

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Grammatical mistake

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Soporific

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Causing sleep or lethargy

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Spartan

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Highly self-disciplined

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Specious
Seemingly plausible but fallacious; deceptively attractive
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Sportive
Playful
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Stasis
Equilibrium
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Stentorian
Extremely loud
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Stigma
Mark of disgrace or shame
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Stolid
unemotional
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Stratagem
Trick to deceive enemy