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
8
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Sacrosanct
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Very sacred
9
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Sagacious
A
Wise
10
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Salient
A
Prominent
11
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Salubrious
A
Healthful
12
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Sanguine
A
Cheerfully optimistic
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Sardonic
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Cynical
14
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Satiate
A
To satisfy
15
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Scintilla
A
Trace amount
16
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Sedition
A
Behavior promoting rebellion/civil disorder
17
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Sentient
A
Aware
18
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Seraphic
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Sweet; angelic
19
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Sinecure
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Well paying job with little to no work
20
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Slake
A
To calm down or moderate
21
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Sobriquet
A
nickname
22
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Solecism
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Grammatical mistake
23
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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