GRE vocabulary (R)
Terms
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- salient
- prominent, protruding, conspicious, highly relevant
- salubrious
- promoting health or well-being
- sagacious
- having sound judgment, perceptive, wise
- salacious
- appealing to or causing sexual desire, bawdy
- salutary
- remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
- sanctimony
- self-righteousness, pretended piety
- rail
- to complain about bitterly
- rancorous
- characterized by bitter, long-standing resentment
- rapacious
- voracious, greedy, plundering, subsisting on prey
- rarefy
- to make or become thin, less dense, refine
- rebus
- riddle, a representation of words by pictures or symbols that sound like words
- recalcitrant
- obstinately defiant of authority or guidance, difficult to manage
- recant
- to retract, esp. a previously held belief
- recondite
- hidden, concealed, difficult to understand, obscure
- reconnoiter
- to engage in reconnaissance, make a preliminary inspection of
- recumbent
- leaning, resting, prone
- redolent
- fragrant, suggestive or evocative
- redoubtable
- awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
- refulgent
- radiant; shiny; brilliant
- refute
- to disprove, successfully argue against
- regale
- to delight or entertain, feast
- relegate
- to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position
- remonstrate
- to protest, object
- renege
- to fail to honor a commitment, go back on a promise
- rent
- torn, split apart, pierced as by a sound
- repine
- to feel or express dejection or discontent, long for
- repudiate
- to refuse to have anything to do with, disown
- rescind
- to invalidate, repeal, retract
- resolute
- adamant, steadfast, determined
- reticent
- quiet, reserved, reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
- reverent
- marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect
- rhetoric
- the art or study of effective use of langauge for communication and persuasion
- rubric
- authoritative rule, heading, title, or category
- rue
- regret, feel remorse
- ramify
- to be divided or subdivided, branch out