Group5 Flashcards
Sartorial
Pertaining to tailors
Sardonic
Cynical; scornfully mocking
Saturnine
Gloomy
Satyr
Creature that’s half-man, half-beast with the horns and legs of a goat
Savor
To enjoy; have a distinctive flavour or smell
Reverent
Express deep respect
Riposte
A retaliatory action or retort
Rococo
Excessively ornate; highly decorated
rue
To regret
Ruse
Trick, crafty stratagem, subterfuge
Subterfuge
Deceit used to achieve one’s goal
Sage
Wise
Salacious
Lascivious, lustful
Lascivious
Lustful, wanton; immoral sexual thoughts
Salubrious
Healthful
Salutary
Expecting an improvement, favourable to health
Reticent
Not speaking freely, reserved, reluctant
Resolve
Determination, firmness of purpose
Rescind
To cancel
Repudiate
To reject as having no authority
Reprobate
Morally unprincipled person
Reprise
Repetition, especially of a piece of music
Repine
Fret, complain
Reparation
Amends, compensation
Recluse
Person who lives in seclusion and often in solitude
Recondite
Abstruse, profound
Abstruse
Difficult to understand, obscure
Redoubtable
Formidable, arousing fear, worthy of respect
Refractory
Stubborn, unmanageable, resisting ordinary methods of treatment
Refulgent
Brightly shining
Resplendent
Attractive through being richly colourful and sumptuous
Regale
To entertain
Relegate
To consign to an inferior position
Remonstrate
To object or protest
Renege
To go back on one’s word
Quorum
Number of members necessary to conduct a meeting
Raconteur
Witty, skillful storyteller
Rail
To scold with bitter or abusive language
Raiment
Clothing
Ramifications
Implications, outgrowth, consequence
Rarefied
Refined
Rebus
Puzzle in which pictures and symbols represent words
Recalcitrant
Resisting authority or control
Recant
To retract a statement or opinion
