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- RAILLERY
- LIGHTHEARTED JESTING
- RAFFISH
- LOW, VULGAR, BASE, TAWDRY
- RAMIFY
- TO BE DIVIDED OR SUBDIVIDED; TO BRANCH OUT
- RAMPANT
- REARING UP ON HIND LEGS; UNRESTRAINED
- RARIFY
- TO MAKE THIN, LESS DENSE, REFINE “gases condense when cooled and rarefy when heated” “air at high elevation rarefies, making it difficult to breathe”
- RATIONCINATION
- METHODICAL, LOGICAL REASONING
- RAVENING
- RAPACIOUS; SEEKING PREY
- RAW
- VULGAR
- REACTIONARY
- OPPOSING PROGRESS
- REBARBATIVE
- IRRITATING, REPELLANT
- REBUFF
- BLUNT REJECTION
- RECAST
- CAST OR FASHION ANEW
- RECOMPENSE
- MAKE PAYMENT TO, REWARD
- RECONNOITER
- MAKE A PERLIMINARY INSPECTION OF “reconnoiter the area for a good camp site”
- RECREANCY
- COWARDICE, GIVING UP
- REDOUBTABLE
- AWE-INSPIRING, WORTHY OF HONOR “he came from a redoubtable family”
- REDRESS
- RELIEF FROM WRONG OR INJURY
- REJOINDER
- RESPONSE
- REPINE
- AT: BE DISCONTENTED WITH FOR: TO LONG FOR
- RELEGATE
- TO FORCIBLY ASSIGN, ESP. TO A LOWER PLACE OR POSITION
- RENASCENT
- REBORN, COMING INTO BEING AGAIN
- RENEGADE
- TRAITOR, PERSON ABANDONING A CAUSE
- RENITENT
- RESISTING PRESSURE, OBSTINATE
- REPREHEND
- TO CRITICIZE
- REPREHENSIBLE
- DISRESPECTFUL, BLAMEWORTHY
- REPUDIATE
-
DISOWN, REFUSE TO ACCEPT OR PAY “the psychic repudiated her claims when it became obvious her client had not won the lottery”
To reject the validity or authority of: “Chaucer... not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it” (Joyce Carol Oates).
To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust: repudiated the accusation.
To refuse to recognize or pay: repudiate a debt.
To disown (a child, for example).
To refuse to have any dealings with. - REQUITE
- GIVE IN RETURN, REPAY
- RESTIVE
- REFUSING TO MOVE; RELUCTANT TO BE CONTROLLED, IMPATIENT, UNEASY, RESTLESS
- RETIRING
- SHY, MODEST, RESERVED
- RETRENCH
-
CUT DOWN, REDUCE, OMIT, ECONOMIZE
REGROUP, REORGANIZE - REVILE
- TO CRITICIZE WITH HARSH LANGUAGE, VERBALLY ABUSE
- RHEUMY
- PERTAINING TO A DISCHARGE FROM NOSE AND EYES
- RIDDLE
- TO PUT MANY HOLES IN, PERMEATE
- RISIBLE
- INCLINED TO LAUGH, LUDICROUS
- RIVET
- FIX, TAKE UP, SECURE; METAL PIN (EX-RIVETING)
- ROAN
- BROWN MIXED WITH GREY OR WHITE
- ROIL
- TO DISTURB OR CAUSE DISORDER
- RUBICUND
- HAVING A HEALTHY REDDISH COLOR; RUDDY; FLORID
- ROSEATE
- OPTIMISTIC
- RUTH
- MERCY
- SACERDOTAL
- PRIESTLY
- SAFFRON
- ORANGE-COLORED; COLORED LIKE THE AUTUMN CROCUS
- SALUTARY
- WHOLESOME, CAUSING IMPROVEMENT
- SANCTIMONY
- SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS, HYPOCRITICAL, WITH FALSE PIETY
- SCRIVENER
- PROFESSIONAL COPYIST
- SCRUPULOUS
- RESTRAINED, CAREFUL AND PRECISE
- SCURRILOUS
- VULGAR, LOW, INDECENT
- SCURVY
- MEAN, CONTEMPTIBLE
- SEDULITY
- CONCENTRATION OR BLATANT ATTENTIVENESS
- SEPULCHRAL
- TYPICAL OF A PLACE OF BURIAL
- SERAPHIC
- ANGELIC, PURE, SUBLIME
- SERE
- MAKE HARD AND WITHOUT FEELING , WITHERED
- SERMON
- REPROVING A PERSON FOR HIS FAULTS
- SHIRK
- AVOID A TASK DUE TO LAZINESS OR FEAR
- SIDLE
- TO CAUSE TO TURN SIDEWAYS, TO MOVE ALONG ONE SIDE
- SINGULAR
- EXCEPTIONAL, UNUSUAL, ODD
- SINUOUS
- WINDING, DEVIOUS
- SKEIN
- A BUNCH OF YARN
- SKIFF
- SMALL BOAT
- SLAKE
- TO CALM DOWN OR MODERATE
- SLATE
- PROPOSE; CRITICIZE
- SLIPSHOD
- CARELESS, HASTY
- SOBRIQUET
- NICKNAME
- SOLECISM
- GRAMMATICAL MISTAKE
- SOLICITOUS
- CONCERNED AND ATTENTIVE, EAGER
- SOLIPCISM
- BELIEF THAT THE SELF IS THE ONLY TRUE REALITY
- SPATE
- A SUDDEN OUTPOURING
- SQUAT
- CROUCH/SETTLE WITHOUT PERMISSION
- STAID
- SELF-RESTRAINED TO THE POINT OF DULLNESS
- STAND
- A GROUP OF TREES
- STATELY
- GRAND, UNAPPROACHABLE
- STENTORIAN
- EXTREMELY LOUD AND POWERFUL
- STILTED
- STIFF, UNNATURAL
- STRICTURE
- SOMETHING THAT RESTRAINS, NEGATIVE CRITICISM
- STRIPLING
- AN ADOLESCENT BOY
- STULTIFY
- TO IMPAIR OR REDUCE TO USELESSNESS
- SUBLIMATE
- TO REPRESS IMPULSES
- SUBORN
- INDUCE BY BRIBERY OR SMTH TO COMMIT PERJURY
- SUBSUME
- INCLUDE UNDER A RULE
- SUBVERSIVE
- TENDING TO OVERTHROW OR RUIN
- SUBVERT
- TO UNDERMINE OR CORRUPT
- SUMPTUOUS
- LAVISH, SPLENDID
- SUPERCILIOUS
- DISDAINFUL; CHARACTERIZED BY HAUGHTY SCORN
- SUPEREROGATORY
- NONESSENTIAL
- SUPINE
- LYING ON THE BACK; SLOW TO ACT, PASSIVE
- SUPPLIANT
- ASKING HUMBLY, BESEECHING
- SURFEIT
- SATIATE, FEED TO FULNESS OR TO EXCESS
- SWARTHY
- HAVING A DARK COMPLEXION
- SYBARITE
- PERSON DEVOTED TO PLEASURE OR LUXURY
- TABLE
- TO REMOVE FROM CONSIDERATION
- TABLEAU
- VIVID DESCRIPTION, STRIKING INCIDENT OR SCENE
- TAMP
- TAP OR DRIVE DOWN BY REPEATED LIGHT BLOWS
- TEMERITY
- BOLDNESS, BRASHNESS, INTREPIDNESS
- TEMPORIZE
- AVOID COMMITTING ONESELF; GAIN TIME
- TENDER
- TO OFFER FORMALLY
- TENDENTIOUS
-
BIASED, FAVORING A CERTAIN (OFTEN UNPOPULAR) POINT OF VIEW..
"a tendentious account of recent elections" - TESTINESS
- WITNESS/EVIDENCE
- THRALL
- A SLAVE
- THRENODY
- A SAD POEM OR SONG
- THROTTLE
- STRANGLE
- TOUT
- TO SOLICIT CUSTOMERS, VOTES, OR PATRONAGE, ESPECIALLY IN A BRAZEN WAY
- TRADUCE
-
TO EXPOSE TO CONTEMPT OR SHAME; TO REPRESENT AS BLAMABLE; TO
CALUMNIATE; TO VILIFY; TO DEFAME. . ”Not satisfied with expelling Shelley from their clique, the high school girls went on to traduce her by starting a series of vicious rumors.” - TRAMMEL
- TO IMPEDE OR HAMPER
- TREMULOUS
- TREMBLING, QUIVERING, FEARFUL. TIMID
- TROUNCE
- TO BEAT SEVERELY. TO DEFEAT
- TURPITUDE
- WICKEDNESS, SHAMEFULNESS
- UNASSUAGED
- UNSATISFIED; NOT SOOTHED
- UNCONSCIONABLE
- UNSCRUPULOUS, SHOCKINGLY UNFAIR OR UNJUST
- UNCTUOUS
- OILY; BLAND; INSINCERELY SUAVE
- UNEXCEPTIONABLE
- ENTIRELY ACCEPTABLE; NOT OFFERING ANY BASIS FOR CRITICISM
- UNGUENT
- OINTMENT
- UNINITIATED
- NOT FAMILIAR WITH AN AREA OF STUDY
- UNSTINTING
- GENEROUS
- UNTOWARD
- UNFORTUNATE, INCONVENIENT, UNRULY, UNSEEMLY, TROUBLESOME
- UNTRAMMELED
- UNHAMPERED
- UNWONTED
- UNACCUSTOMED; UNUSUAL
- UMBRAGE
- OFFENSE, RESENTMENT “i took umbrage at his insults”
- UPSHOT
- OUTCOME; FINAL RESULT
- UXORIOUS
- EXCESSIVELY SUBMISSIVE OR DEVOTED TO ONE'S WIFE
- URBANE
- ELEGANT, REFINED IN MANNERS
- VANTAGE
- POSITION GIVING AN ADVANTAGE (SUCH AS A STRATEGIC POINT
- VASSAL
-
IN FEUDALISM, ONE WHO HELD LAND OF A SUPERIOR LORD;
SUBORDINATE OR DEPENDENT - VENALITY
- USE OF POSITION FOR PERSONAL GAIN
- VERDIGRIS
-
GREEN COATING OR PATINA ON COPPER WHICH HAS BEEN EXPOSED TO
THE WEATHER - VERDURE
- FRESH, RICH VEGETATION
- VERISIMILAR
- HAVING THE APPEARANCE OF TRUTH OR REALITY; PROBABLE OR LIKELY TO BE TRUE; PLAUSIBLE
- VIAND
- FOOD
- VICISSITUDE
- CHANGE (FROM GOOD TO BAD); CHANGE OF FORTUNE, UPS AND DOWNS
- VINDICATE
- TO SUPPORT OR MAINTAIN AS TRUE OR CORRECT; RELEASE FROM FAULT
- VITIATE
-
TO MAKE VOID OR DESTROY; TO RENDER DEFECTIVE “It is conceivable that
an error could be so serious as to vitiate the entire body of the work.” - VITUPERATIVE
-
CONTAINING, OR CHARACTERIZED BY, ABUSE; SCOLDING "his vituperative
remarks about silly lady novelists" - VIGILANTE
- ONE WHO WITHOUT AUTHORITY ASSUMES LAW ENFORCEMENT POWERS
- VIRAGO
- A LOUD, DOMINEERING WOMAN; A SCOLD OR NAG
- VOLUBILITY
- FLUENCY, VERBOSITY, EASY USE OF SPOKEN LANGUAGE
- VOLUBLE
- FLUENT
- VOUCHSAFE
- GRANT CONDESCENDINGLY; GUARANTEE
- WAIF
- HOMELESS CHILD OR ANIMAL
- WANGLE
- TUNNELS IN WHICH RABBITS LIVE; OVERCROWDED LIVING AREA; CROWDED CONDITIONS IN WHICH PEOPLE LIVE
- WARREN
- TUNNELS IN WHICH RABBITS LIVE; OVERCROWDED LIVING AREA; CROWDED CONDITIONS IN WHICH PEOPLE LIVE
- WASPISH
- RUDE, BEHAVING BADLY
- WAYLAY
- AMBUSH; LIE IN WAIT FOR AND ATTACK
- WEND
- TO GO, PROCEED
- WHIT
- SMALL AMOUNT; SMALLEST SPECK;
- WILLOWY
- FLEXIBLE; PLIANT; SLENDER;
- WINDFALL
- FALLEN FRUIT; UNEXPECTED LUCKY EVENT
- WISPY
- THIN; SLIGHT; BARELY DISCERNIBLE
- WISTFUL
- SADLY THOUGHTFUL (BECAUSE OF DESIRES OR MEMORIES); SADLY PENSIVE; VAGUELY LONGING
- WONT
-
(THE STATED PERSON'S) HABIT OR CUSTOM; HABITUAL PROCEDURE;
(as choatic as the holidays are wont to be) (the poor man is wont to complain in
this harsh world) - WRANGLE
- LOUD QUARREL
- WRONGHEADED
- STUBBORNLY WRONG
- YARN
- TALE, STORY; FIBERS FOR KNITTING
- YEN
- STRONG DESIRE; LONGING; URGE
- YEOMAN
- MAN OR FARMER OWNING SMALL ESTATE; MIDDLE-CLASS FARMER
- YOKE
- TO JOIN TOGETHER
- ZEPHYR
- GENTLE BREEZE; WEST WIND