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Reprieve
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An official order that stops or delays the punishment
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Rescind
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Take back or make invalid
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Reprimand
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Formal expression of disapproval
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Reprobate
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Person of bad character and habits
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Repudiate
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Refuse to accept anything
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Reputable
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Having a good reputation
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Requisition
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Officially request or take
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Reparation
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Compensation
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Repine
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Express or feel unhappiness
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Repose
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State in which someone is resting and feeling calm
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Remonstrate
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Protest
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Remote
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Slight
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Remunerative
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Providing or likely to provide payment or reward
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Renounce
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Give up
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Renunciation
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Act of not allowing oneself certain pleasures
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Remiss
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Showing neglect
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Remissive
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Forgiving
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Relegate
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Put someone or something into a lower or less important rank or position
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Redoubtable
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Producing respect and a little fear in others
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Refutable
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Deniable
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Rehash
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Rework, restate
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Reiterate
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Say again
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Reclamation
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Treatment of waste materials to obtain useful materials from them
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Reconcile
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Become friends again after a disagreement
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Redolent
Strong, usually pleasant odor
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Redouble
Become greater or more intense
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Rebuff
Give the cold shoulder
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Rebuttal
Statement which says a claim or criticism is not true
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Recalcitrant
Stubbornly disobedient
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Recant
Say you no longer hold a set of beliefs you had in the past
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Reciprocity
Give and take
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Raucous
Loud and disorderly
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Ravage
Cause great damage to something
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Reactionary
Preventing progress toward greater efficiency
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Rapport
Good understanding of someone and an ability to communicate well with them
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Rapt
Completely engrossed
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Ratify
Make an agreement official
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Quotidian
Ordinary, everyday
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Raiment
Clothes
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Ramification
Consequence
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Rancorous
Feeling or showing bitter resentment
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Rank
Complete or extreme
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Querulous
Often complaining
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Query
Question
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Quiescence
Quiet
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Quixotic
Unrealistic
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Pusillanimous
Shamefully timid
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Putative
Widely thought to be such
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Putrid
Decayed and having an unpleasant smell
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Quagmire
Unpleasant situation that is difficult to escape
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Qualitative
Concerning the nature or attributes of something
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Qualm
Feeling of uneasiness about whether a decision is really for the best
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Quandary
Situation of uncertainty, puzzlement, or hesitation
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Pundit
Expert
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Pungen
Biting or caustic
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Punitive
Intended as punishment
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Purport
General meaning of someone's words or actions
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Pusillanimity
Timidity
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Puerile
Behaving in a silly way
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Pugnacious
Ready or eager to fight
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Provocation
Something that causes anger or irritation
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Prudence
Wisdom and caution
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Prudent
Sensible and careful
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Pry
Try to obtain private facts about a person
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Prosaic
Lacking interest, imagination and variety
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Prospectus
Document giving details about a college, school or business
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Prostrate
Distressed by a very bad experience
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Protean
Easily changing form
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Provenance
Source of something
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Prolix
Boring or difficult to read or listen to
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Promulgate
Spread beliefs among people
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Pronouncement
Formal or official declaration
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Propensity
Tendency toward a particular way of behaving
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Proprietor
Person who owns a particular type of business
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Progenitor
Person who first thinks of something
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Progeny
Offspring
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Prognosis
Forecast of anything
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Prohibitive
Too expensive
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Profligate
Wasteful
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Profundity
Great intellectual depth and understanding
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Profusion
Extremely large amount of something
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Privation
Lack of necessities or common comforts of life
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Probity
Complete honesty
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Proclivity
Natural tendency or inclination
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Procure
Obtain
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Pretentious
Making a show or claim of unwarranted importance
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Pretentiousnss
Showing off
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Prevaricate
Conceal the truth deliberately
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Prim
Very formal and correct in behavior
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Primacy
State or being the most important thing
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Principle
Personal code of behavior or morality
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Prepossessing
Attractive
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Presage
Intuition or sense of a future occurrence
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Prescience
Knowledge of future occurrences
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Prescriptive
Setting down rules
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Presumptuous
Showing a lack of respect
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Predilection
Strong liking for something
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Predispose
Prepare someone beforehand to be inclined toward a certain attitude or action
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Predominant
More noticeable
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Premonition
Advance sign or warning
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Precipitate
Cause something to occur suddenly or sooner than normal
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Preclude
Prevent an event or action from happening
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Precocious
Having skills/mental capacity of a much older person
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Pontificate
Speak or behave with exaggerated authority
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Portend
Indicate something is likely to happen in the future
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Postulate
Suggest something as the basis for a theory, argument, calculation
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Potentate
Person of great power
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Precarious
Dependent on chance
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Practitioner
Person practicing a trade, occupation, profession
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Plodding
Working slowly and continuously
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Plow
Proceed with determination
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Polarize
Become concentrated around opposite points
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Polemic
Involving dispute or controversy
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Plasticity
Flexibility
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Platitude
Overused, dull or trivial remark
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Plaudit
Enthusiastic show of approval
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Pliant
Easily flexed
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Pinnacle
High point
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Piquant
Having pleasant sharp or spicy taste
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Piqué
Make someone interested
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Pithy
Short direct and full of meaning
