Sparknotes' SAT Vocabulary - R
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- Rail
- To scold, protest
- Rapport
- Mutual understanding and harmony
- Raucous
- Loud, boisterous
- Raze
- To demolish, level
- Recalcitrant
- Defiant, unapologetic
- Reciprocate
- To give in return
- Reclusive
- Solitary, shunning society
- Rectitude
- Uprightness, extreme morality
- Redoubtable
- Formidable OR commanding respect
- Refract
- To distort, change
- Refute
- To prove wrong
- Regurgitate
- To vomit OR to throw back exactly
- Relegate
- To assign to the proper place OR to assign to an inferior place
- Relish
- To enjoy
- Remedial
- Intended to repair gaps in students' basic knowledge
- Remiss
- Negligent, failing to take care
- Renovate
- Restore, return to original state OR to enlarge or make prettier, especially a house
- Renown
- Honor, acclaim
- Renunciation
- To reject
- Repentant
- Penitent, sorry
- Repose
- To rest, lie down
- Reprehensible
- Deserving rebuke
- Reprieve
- A temporary delay of punishment
- Reproach
- To scold, disapprove
- Reprobate
- Evil, unprincipled
- Reprove
- To scold, rebuke
- Repudiate
- To reject, refuse to accept
- Repulse
- To disgust OR to push back
- Reputable
- Of good reputation
- Requisition
- A demand for supplies, usually made by an authority
- Rescind
- To take back, repeal
- Resolute
- Firm, determined
- Respite
- A break, rest
- Resplendent
- Shiny, glowing
- Restitution
- Restoration to the rightful owner
- Restive
- Resistant, stubborn, impatient
- Revel
- To enjoy intensely
- Revoke
- To take back
- Rhapsodize
- To engage in excessive enthusiasm
- Ribald
- Coarsely, crudely humorous
- Rife
- Abundant
- Ruminate
- To contemplate, reflect