Rep-Ter Flashcards

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Repast

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meal or mealtime; feast

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Replete

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abundantly supplied; complete; full

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Repose

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relaxation; leisure; tranquility

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Reprobate

A

unprincipled or evil person; depraved individual; person hardened by sin

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Repudiate

A

roughly go against, deny truth or validity of

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Requite

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to return or repay; compensate

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Rescind

A

take away or take back; nullify; revoke

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Restive

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impatient, uneasy, or restless

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Reticent

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reserved, modest

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Ribald

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humorous in a vulgar way

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Rococo

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very highly ornamented; relating to an 18th century artistic style of elaborate ornamentation

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Sacrosanct

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extremely sacred; beyond criticism; inviolable

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Salubrious

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healthful; therapeutic; curative

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Sanction

A

officially authorize; agree to; approve

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Sanguine

A

ruddy; cheerfully optimistic

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Sardonic

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cynical; scornfully mocking

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Scintilla

A

trace amount; speck

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Sedition

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behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder against the state

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Seraphic

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angelic; sweet

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Sinecure

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a well-playing job or office that requires little or no work

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Slake

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to calm down or moderate

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Sobriquet

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nickname; alias

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Solecism

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grammatical mistake

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Solicitous

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full of concern or fear; eager; extremely careful; apprehensive

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Soporific
causing sleep or lethargy
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Spartan
highly self-disciplined; frugal; austere
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Specious
deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious
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Sportive
frolicsome; playful
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Staid
sedate; respectable, unadventurous
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Stentorian
extremely loud
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Stint
be frugal; set limits; be thrifty; be sparing
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Stipulate
make express conditions; arrange specifically; expressly demand
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Stolid
unemotional; lacking sensitivity
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Stratagem
trick designed to deceive an enemy
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Succor
assistance and support in times of hardship and distress
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Supplant
to replace by force; to take the place of
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Supposition
something that is supposed; assumption; surmise
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Sybaritic
self-indulgent
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Syncopation
temporary irregularity in musical rhythm
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Tacit
done without using words; implicit
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Taciturn
silent; not talkative
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Tangential
digressing; diverting
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Tawdry
gaudy, cheap, or showy
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Tenebrous
dark, shadowy, obscure
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Tenuous
having little substance or strength; thin, threadlike, weak; flimsy
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Terrestrial
earthly; down-to-earth; commonplace