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GRE English

pg 34-37

QuestionAnswer
to rend to tear apart
repartee clever reply
to repine to fret
reprobate hardened in sin
to requite to revenge
restive restless
reticient reserved
reticulated covered by a network
retinue following
to retrograde to degenerate
to rhapsodize to speak or write in exaggeratedly enthusiastic vein
rhetoric art of effective communication
ribald profane
rife abundant
to roil make murky by stiring up sediment
rubicund ruddy florid
to rusticate dwell in the country
salacious lascivious, lustful
sallow yellowish
salutary healthy
sanguinary bloody
sanguine blood-red
sartorial pertaining to tailors
saturne gloomy
savant scholar
savoir fare tact
scion offspring
scullion menial kitchen worker
scurrilous obscene
sedition resistance to authority
sedulous diligent
seminal germinal
senescence aging
sequester to set apart, seclude
serendipity desirable discoveries by accident
shamblees slaughterhouse
to shunt to turn aside
sideral relating to the stars
sinecure position without responsibility
sinuous winding
skulduggery dishonest behavior
to slake to satisfy
sleazy flimsy
sobriqust nickname
sojurn temorary visit
solecism flagrantly incorrect gramatical construction
solicitous concerned
soliloguy talking to oneself
sophist teacher of philosophy
sophistication aritficiality
sophistry plausable but fallacious reasoning
spate sudden flood
specious seemingly reasonable but incorrect
spectral ghostly
splenetic spiteful
spurious false
squalid dirty
to staunch check flow of blood
stentorian extremely loud
stoic indifferent to pain or pleasure
stolidity impassiveness
stricture critical comments
strut supporting bar
stygian hellish
subaltern subordinate
succor aid
suffuse to spread over
to sully to tarnish
sumptuary limiting or regulating expenditure
to sundar to part
supercilious contemptuous
supernal heavenly
suppurate create pus
surcease cessation
to surfeit to overfeed
surrepticious secret
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