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quash
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v. subdue; crush; squash
the govt tried to quash the student rebellion |
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quay
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n. dock; landing place
the ship crashed into the quay |
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quell
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v. extinguish; put down; quiet
the teacher could quell any unrest among her students w/ one intimidating glance |
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querulous
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adj. fretful; whining
those toddlers are always querulous |
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quibble
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n. minor objection or complaint
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quiescent
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adj. at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive
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quietude
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n. tranquility
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quintessence
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n. purest and highest embodiment
he displayed teh quintessence of wit |
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quip
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n. taunt
you are unpopular bc u are too free w/ your quips and sarcastic comments |
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quirk
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n. startling twist; caprice
By a quirk of fate... |
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quisling
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n. traitor who aids invaders
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quixotic
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adj. idealistic but impractical
quixotic, unworkable schemes to save the world |
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quizzical
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adj. teasing; bantering; mocking; curious
he raised a quizzical eyebrow |
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quotidian
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adj. daily; commonplace; customary
quotidian routine |
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rabid
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adj. like a fanatic; furious
He was a rabid follower of the Dodgers |
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raconteur
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n. story-teller
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ragamuffin
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n. person wearing tattered clothes
the ragamuffin was begging for food |
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rail
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v. scold; rant
you may rail at him all you want; you will never change him |
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raiment
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n. clothing
Cinderella had no fitting raiment to wear to the Ball |
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rakish
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adj. stylish; sporty
he wore his hat at a rakish and jaunty angle |
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ramification
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n. branching out; subdivision
We must examine all the ramifications of this problem |
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ramify
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v. divide into branches or subdivisions
When the plant begins to ramify, you should nip off most the new branches |
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rampant
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adj. growing in perfusion; unrestrained
rampant weeds |
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rampart
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n. defensive mound of earth
From the ramparts we watched as the fighting continued. |
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ramshackle
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adj. rickety; falling apart
the boys propped up the ramshackle clubhouse w/ a couple of boards |
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rancid
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adj. having the odor of stale fat
rancid odor |
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rancor
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n. bitterness; hatrid
she still had rancor against her ex |
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rankle
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v. irritate; fester
The memory of having been jilted rankled him for years jilted-decieve or drop (a lover) suddenly or callously (emotionally hardened/unfeeling) |
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rant
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v. rave; talk excitedly; scold; make a grandiloquent speech
after i ruined the car, my dad ranted at me like a madman |
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rapacious
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adj. excessively grasping (greedy; avaricious) ; plundering
the rapacious birds preyed on the small animals |
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rapport
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n. emotional cloeness; harmony
the group has good rapport w/ one another |
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rapt
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adj. absorbed; enchanted
the rapt listeners sat motionless, hanging on his every word |
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rarefied
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adj. made less dense (of a gas)
the mt climbers had difficulty breathing in the rarefied atmosphere |
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ratify
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v. approve formally; confirm; verify
Congress ratified the constitutional amendment |
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ratiocination
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n. reasoning; act of drawing conclusions from premises
his gift for ratiocination made him a superb detective |
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ravage
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v. plunder; despoil
the marauding army ravaged the countryside |
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rave
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n. overwhelmingly favorable review
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ravel
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v. fall apart into tangles; unrable or untwist; entangle
A single thread pulled loose and the entire scarf started to ravel |
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ravenous
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adj. extremely hungry
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ravine
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n. narrow valley w/ steep sides
Steeper than a gully, less precipitous than a canyon, a ravine is, like them, the product of years of erosion |
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raze
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v. destroy completely
raze a building |
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reactionary
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adj. opposing progress; poticially ultraconservative
Reactionary forces in the church fought to reinstate the mass in Latin |
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realm
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n. kingdom; field or sphere
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reaper
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n. one who harvests grain
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rebuff
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v. snub (treat w/ disdain; reject w/ a sharp rebuke); beat back (force back)
She rebuffed his invitation |
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rebuke
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v. scold harshly; criticize severely
No matter how sharply she rebuked Huck, he just stood there and took it |
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rebus
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n. puzzle in which pictures stand for words
A coven of witches beside a tree is a possible rebus for hte town Coventry |
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recalcitrant
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adj. obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly
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recant
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v. disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error
He recanted his sworn testimony |
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recapitulate
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v. summarize
Recap! |
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recast
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v. reconstruct (a sentence, a story)
Let me recast this sentence in terms your feeble (weak)brain can grasp: you are a fool |
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recidivism
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n. habitual return to crime
THe US has a high rate of recidivism; tons of people werve 2nd or 3rd terms |
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reconcile
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v. correct inconsistencies; become friendly after a quarrel
reconcile our checkbook with the bank statement |
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recondite
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adj. abstruse; profound; secret
he read many recondite books |
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reconnaissance
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n. survey of enemy by soldiers; reconnoitering (prelim inspection, esp to gather military info)
If you encounter any enmy soldiers during your reconnaissance, capture them for questioning. |
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recount
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v. narrate or tell ; count all over again
recount his latest adventure |
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recourse
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n. resorting to help when in trouble
the boy's only recourse was to appeal to his father for aid |
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recrimination
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n. countercharges
Loud and angry recriminations were her answer to his accusations |
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rectitude
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n. uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judgement
The Eagle Scout was a model of rectitude |
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recumbent
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adj. reclining; lying down completely or in part
first class allows you to take a recumbent position |
