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31 Cards in this Set
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Quay
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n. dock; landing place. Because of the captain's carelessness, the ship crashed into the quay.
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Querulous
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adj. fretful; whining. Even the most agreable toddlers can begin to act querulous if they miss they mothers.
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Quiescent
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adj. at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive. Aftet the devastating eruption, fear of Mount Etna was great. Therefore, people waited until they were certain it was quiescent.
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Quip
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n. taunt. You are unpopular because you quip to harshly.
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Quisling
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n. traitor who aids invaders. In his conquest of Europe, Hitler was aided by quislings.
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Quixotic
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adj. idealistic but impratical.
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Quizzical
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adj. teasing; bantering; mocking; curious. When the awkward kid stumbled into class, we all raised a quizzical brow.
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Quorum
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n. number of members necessary to conduct a meeting. The senator asked for a roll call to ddetrmine whether a quorum was present.
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Quotidian
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adj. daily; commonplace; customary. To Phillip his new job was exciting. Nothing was quotidian about it.
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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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Racounter
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n. story-teller. Aunt Bev is a gifted racounter.
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Rail
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v. scold; rant. You may rail at him all you want. . . . Who knows if it will make a difference?
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Raiment
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n. clothing
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Rakish
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adj. stylish; sporty. He wore his hat at a rakish angle.
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Ramify
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v. divide into sub-branches or divisions
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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 playhouse.
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Rapacious
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adj. excessively grasping; plundering. The rapacious robbers were incessant in their uhunt for gold.
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Rankle
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v. irritate; fester. The memory rankled him for years to come.
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Rapt
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adj. absorbed; enchanted. Caught up in the story, the rapt listeners were completely focused.
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Rarefied
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adj. made less dense. the mountain climbers had difficulty breathing in the rarefied atmosphere.
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Ratiocination
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n. reasoning; act of drawing conclusions from premises. The philosophers were known for their rationcination.
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Reactionary
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adj. opposing progress; politically ultra-conservative. Opposing the use of English in worship services, reactionary forces in the church fought to reinstate old ways.
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Rebus
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v. puzzle in which pictures stand for words
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Recalcitrant
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adj. obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly. The recalcitrant group of teenagers were difficult to keep in track.
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Recant
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v. disclaim or disavow; retract a previous staement. Hoping to make the Catholic recant his statements, the church pressured him to . . .
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Recapitulate
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v. summarize. Le us recapitualte the scence.
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Recast
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v. reconstruct; fashion again. Let me recast the issue in terms that you can understand.
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Recondite
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adj. abstruse; profound; secret. He read many recondite books in order to obtaqin the material for his scholarly thesis.
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Rectitude
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n. uprightness; moral virute; correctness of virtue. The Eagle Scout was a model of rectitude.
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Recumbent
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adj. reclining; lyisn down completely or in part. The comman "At Ease" does not permit you to take a recumbent position.
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