English - SAT Words (4th Quarter)
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- Redundant
- being more than is required; excess; unnecessarily wordy
- regress
- to go back; move backward; return
- remiss
- slack or careless in matters requiring attention; negligent
- reject
- to refuse to accept, recognize, or believe; to cast away as worthless; to discard
- retract
- to take back or disavow an assertion or admission; to draw back or in, as the claws of a cat
- recluse
- a person who livs apart from the world for religious reasons; one who lives a solitary life
- redoubtable
- formidable; that is to be dreaded; terrible; fearsome
- reprieve
- to suspend temporarily from penalties; to relieve for a time from suffering, danger, or trouble
- repudiate
- to refuse to have anything to do with; to cast off publicly; to disown; to refuse to accept or acknoledge (move back from); to disavow
- resurgence
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rising again; reviving
(re=again, surge=to increase suddenly) - clandestine
- secret, hidden, generally implying craft or deception
- covert
- covered; private, concealed; disguised
- furtive
- done in a sly, secret manner
- stealthy
- acting in a secret manner
- surrepititious
- done secretly or w/o proper authority
- resilient
- springing back to a former shape, position, or state
- renovate
- to make as good as new; repair; refresh
- resistance
- any force tending to hinder motion; the act of striving against; offering opposition
- refute
- to prove the incorrectness of a statemnt; to prove a person to be in error
- regenerate
- to produce or to form anew; be reproduced; recreate; to spiritually renew