GRE List 29
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- retribution
- revenge
- retrograde
- go backwards, recede
- revelry
- noisy partying or merrymaking
- reverberate
- echo, have continuing serious effects
- revere
- show devoted deferential honor to, adore, reverence, vererate
- revile
- criticize abusively
- revue
- musical show of skits, songs and dance
- rhetoric
- art of effective pr persuasice speaking or writing, but often lacking sincerity or meaningful content
- ribald
- crude, offensive, scamp, mischief, rapscallion, rogue
- scamp
- a pleansantly mischievious person
- rickety
- shaky
- rider
- added condition or proviso
- rife
- widespread (esp of something undersirable)
- rigor
-
1. strickness
2. sudden coldness - rile
- make agitated and angry, upset
- rite
- ceremonial act
- rive
- to wrench open or tear apart, teat, cleave, rend
- rivulent
- small stream
- robust
- healthy, strong
- roil
- make turbid (cloudy) by stirring up sediment of dregs (remnants of liquids) of
- roister
- engage in noisy revelry
- rostrum
- stage for public speaking
- rubicund
- ruddy, florid, flush
- rue
- feel penitence, remorse
- ruminate
-
1. chew repeatedly for extended period
2. fo over in mind repeatedly and often slowly
ponder, chaw, deliberate - rumple
- crumple, crinkle
- runic
- rune, mystery
- ruse
- trick to deceive = stratagem
- rustic
- lack social grace
- sacrilege
-
profanation, blasphemy, desecration
violation or misuse of something regarded as sacred or as having great value - sacrosanct
- regarded as too important or valuable to be interfered with
- sagacious
- keen and farsighted penetration and judgment
- salient
- conspicuous
- salubrious
- favorable to or promoting health
- salve
-
1. soothe
2. assuage - sanctify
- free from sin, consecrate
- consecrate
- declare sacred
- sanctimonious
- show of being morally superior
- sanction
- give effective or authoritative approval or consent, approve, certify, endorse
- sanguine
- hopeful, cheerful
- sapient
- expressing great sagacity (appearing wise)
- sartorial
- relating to tailoring
- sate
- satiate, cloy, glut, satisfy to excess
- saturnine
- of gloomy disposition, sullen dour, glum , morose, surly
- saunter
- walk about in idle of leisurely manner
- savant
- person of learning
- scabbard
- sheath for sword
- scads
- large quantity