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Sartorial

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Pertaining to tailors

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Sardonic

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Cynical; scornfully mocking

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Saturnine

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Gloomy

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Satyr

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Creature that’s half-man, half-beast with the horns and legs of a goat

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Savor

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To enjoy; have a distinctive flavour or smell

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Reverent

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Express deep respect

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Riposte

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A retaliatory action or retort

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Rococo

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Excessively ornate; highly decorated

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rue

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To regret

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Ruse

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Trick, crafty stratagem, subterfuge

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Subterfuge

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Deceit used to achieve one’s goal

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Sage

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Wise

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Salacious

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Lascivious, lustful

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Lascivious

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Lustful, wanton; immoral sexual thoughts

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Salubrious

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Healthful

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Salutary

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Expecting an improvement, favourable to health

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Reticent

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Not speaking freely, reserved, reluctant

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Resolve

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Determination, firmness of purpose

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Rescind

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To cancel

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Repudiate

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To reject as having no authority

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Reprobate

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Morally unprincipled person

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Reprise

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Repetition, especially of a piece of music

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Repine

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Fret, complain

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Reparation

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Amends, compensation

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Recluse

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Person who lives in seclusion and often in solitude

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Recondite

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Abstruse, profound

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Abstruse

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Difficult to understand, obscure

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Redoubtable

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Formidable, arousing fear, worthy of respect

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Refractory

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Stubborn, unmanageable, resisting ordinary methods of treatment

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Refulgent

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Brightly shining

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Resplendent

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Attractive through being richly colourful and sumptuous

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Regale

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To entertain

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Relegate

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To consign to an inferior position

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Remonstrate

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To object or protest

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Renege

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To go back on one’s word

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Quorum

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Number of members necessary to conduct a meeting

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Raconteur

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Witty, skillful storyteller

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Rail

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To scold with bitter or abusive language

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Raiment

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Clothing

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Ramifications

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Implications, outgrowth, consequence

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Rarefied

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Refined

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Rebus

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Puzzle in which pictures and symbols represent words

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Recalcitrant

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Resisting authority or control

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Recant

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To retract a statement or opinion