Q/R

Question 1

Qualified

Answer 1

Limited; restricted. Unable to give the candidate his full support, the mayor only gave him a qualified endorsement.

Question 2

Quiescent

Answer 2

At rest; dormant; temporarily inactive. Natives feared returning back to their land until the volcano had been quiescent for at least two years.

Question 3

Rarefied

Answer 3

Made less dense (gas) The mountain climbers had trouble breathing in the rarefied environment.

Question 4

Retalcitrant

Answer 4

Obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly. Which animal do you think is more recalcitrant, a pig or a mule?

Question 5

Recondite

Answer 5

Abstruse (difficult to understand); profound; secret. He read many recondite articles in order to put together his thesis.

Question 6

Refractory

Answer 6

Stubborn; unmanageable. The refractory horse was removed from the race when he refused to obey his jockey.

Question 7

Refute

Answer 7

Disprove. Witnesses to the crime were able to refute the defendants testimony.

Question 8

Relegate

Answer 8

Banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign. After Bob was late to work 3 days in a row, his boss relegated him to a lesser position.

Question 9

Reproach

Answer 9

Express disapproval or disappointment. He couldn’t do anything without imagining how the look on his mother’s face would reproach him afterwards.

Question 10

Reprobate

Answer 10

Person hardened in sin; devoid of a sense of decency. After he attacked his friend he became reprobate.

Question 11

Repudiate

Answer 11

Disown; disavow. After separating from her husband, she swore to repudiate all his debt.

Question 12

Reticent

Answer 12

Reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence. Daniel preferred reticent undergrads than loquacious ones.

Question 13

Reverent

Answer 13

Respectful; worshipful. Though I bow my head in church, sometimes I don’t feel reverent.