7/16 Flashcards
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Resilient
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Withstanding pressure or disease
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Resilience
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Ability to withstand pressure or disease and bounce back
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Resonant
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Full and deep in sound
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Resplendent
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Full of splendor
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Restitution
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Payment made for damage or loss
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Restive
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Unwilling to be controlled
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Resurgence
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Rebirth
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Resuscitate
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Bring back to life
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Retain
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Keep in place
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Retaliatory
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Vengeful, harming someone who has harmed you
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Retention
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Keeping of something
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Reticence
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Unwilling to speak about ones thoughts or feelings
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Retrenchment
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Spending less money
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Retroactive
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Intended to take effect from a date in the past
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Retrograde
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Returning to older and worse conditions
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Revelation
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Act of making something known
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Revelry
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Noisy merrymaking
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Revile
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Criticize in an abusive or scornful way
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Revoke
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Cancel, annul
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Rhapsodize
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Express great enthusiasm for something
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Rhetoric
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Use of inflated or pretentious language
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Roving
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Wandering
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Rousing
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Making people feel excited and proud
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Rustic
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Living in a rural area
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Ruthless
Without mercy
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Saccharine
Too sweet or too polite
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Sacrosanct
Sacred
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Sagacious
Characterized by good judgement and common sense
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Salient
Extremely noticeable
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Salubrious
Favorable to good health
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Salutary
Intended to have a beneficial effect
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Sanctity
Quality of being holy
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Sartorial
Pertaining to tailors or tailored clothing
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Satiate
Completely satisfy
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Scathing
Harshly condemning
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Schism
Division into two groups caused by a disagreement
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Scoff
Mock, sneer
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Scurrilous
Using vulgar, abusive language
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Sedentary
Sitting down a lot and not getting much exercise
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Sedulous
Painstakingly carried out
| Steadily hardworking
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Seedy
Looking dirty and untidy
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Seep
Spread slowly through something
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Self-effacing
Not trying to impress people
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Sequester
Keep a jury together in a place so that they can't discuss the case with other people or read or hear news reports about it
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Serendipity
Chance
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Sermonize
Give moral advice in a pompous way
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Setback
Obstacle
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Shallow
Superficial
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Shattering
Shocking and upsetting someone very much
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Shoddy
Badly and carelessly made
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Sinecure
Position that requires no work or responsibility
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Slight
Treat without proper respect or courtesy
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Slipshod
Careless
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Solace
Comfort or relief
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Solicitous
Showing care and helpful attention to someone
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Solicitude
Anxious concern for someone
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Sonorous
Having a full deep sound
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Sophistry
Use of clever but false arguments
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Soporific
Causing sleep
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Sovereignty
Power of a country to control it's own government
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Spate
Large number of unpleasant things that happen during a short period of time
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Specter
Idea of something unpleasant that might happen in the future
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Sporadic
Occasional, irregular
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Spurious
Not genuine
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Squalor
Very dirty and unpleasant conditions
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Squander
Waste time, money, etc.
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Squelch
Silence someone by making a critical remark
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Stagnation
Condition of becoming dull or unsuccessful because of lack of activity
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Stagnate
Stay the same and not grow or develop
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Staid
Serious, boring, and old fashioned
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Stalwart
Loyal
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Standoffish
Cold and distant in behavior
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Stasis
State which does not change
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Stature
Good reputation a person or organization has, based on their behavior and ability
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Stentorian
Very loud (voice)
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Stifle
Prevent
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Stoic
Person who endures pain without complaining
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Stolid
Not really excited
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Stout
Strong and determined
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Stratify
Arrange in grades
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Strident
Loud and brash
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Stringent
Difficult because there is not enough money
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Studied
Very carefully and intentionally done
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Stymie
Awkward or difficult situation
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Suave
Charming polite and elegant
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Subjective
Based on personal opinions
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Subdued
Not very loud
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Subdue
Overcome
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Sublime
Of the greatest, most admirable kind
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Subsequent
Following, succeeding
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Subterfuge
Trickery
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Subvert
Try to destroy or weaken something
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Succumb
Accept defeat
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Suggestive
Putting particular ideas into ones mind
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Sullen
Gloomy
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Sumptuous
Grand and obviously very expensive
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Supercilious
Arrogant and disdainful
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Superficial
Shallow
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Superfluous
More than is needed or wanted
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Suppress
Stifle
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Surfeit
Amount which is too large
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Surmise
Guess something without having much or any proof
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Surreptitious
Acting secretly or stealthily
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Sweeping
Having an extremely wide effect
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Tacit
Understood without being put into words
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Taciturn
Saying very little
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Tandem
Relationship of two people or things that depends on cooperation
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Tantalizing
Tempting
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Tantamount
Equal to or the same
