SAT Vocab 18
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- Restive; adj
- impatient, unesay, restless
- Reticent; adj
- not speaking freely; reserved
- Retinue; noun
- group of attendants with an important person
- Retiring; adj
- shy, modest, reserved
- Retrench; verb
- to cut down; to reduce
- Revelry; noun
- boisterous festivity
- Ribald; adj
- humorous in a vulgar way
- Riddle; verb
- to make many holes in; to permeate
- Ruminate; verb
- to contemplate, reflect upon
- Sacrosanct; adj
- extremely sacred; beyong criticism
- Sagacious; adj
- shred, keen
- Salubrious; adj
- healthful
- Sanguine; adj
- cheerfully optimistic; ruddy
- Sardonic; adj
- cynical, scornfully, mocking
- Scintilla; noun
- trace amount
- Scintillate; verb
- to sparkle, flash
- Scurrilous; adj
- vulgar, low, indecent
- Sectarian; adj
- narrow-minded; relating to a group or sect
- Senescent; adj
- old
- Sententious; adj
- having a moralizing tone
- Sentient; adj
- aware, conscious, able to perceive
- Seraphic; adj
- angelic, pure, sublime
- Simper; verb
- to smirk; to smile foolishly
- Sinuous; adj
- winding; intricate, complex
- Solecism; noun
- grammatical mistake
- Solipsism; noun
- belief that oneself is the only reality
- Somnolent; adj
- drowsy, sleepy; inducing sleep
- Sonorous; adj
- producing a full, rich sound
- Sophistry; noun
- deceptive reasoing or arguementation
- Soporific; adj
- sleepy or tending to cause sleep