GRE Vocab (R-S)
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- Raconteur
- witty
- Raging
- wild
- Rail
- to scold with bitter or abusive language
- Raillery
- lighthearted jesting
- Rampant
- unrestrained
- Ramshackle
- likely to collapse
- Rancor
- bitter hatred
- Rant
- to forcefully scold
- Rapacious
- greedy
- Rapport
- relationship of trust and respect
- Ratify
- to approve formally
- Ratiocination
- methodical
- Raucous
- harsh-sounding
- Ravine
- deep, narrow gorge
- Raw
- vulgar
- Raze
- to tear down, demolish
- Reactionary
- marked by extreme conservatism
- Rebarbative
- irritating
- Rebuff
- blunt rejection
- Rebuke
- scold
- Rebut
- to refute with evidence
- Recalcitrant
- resisting authority or control
- Recapitulate
- to review with a brief summary
- Recreant
- disloyal
- Rectitude
- moral uprightness
- Redress
- relief from wrong doing or injury
- Refectory
- room where meals are served
- Regimen
- government rule
- Rejoinder
- response
- Relegate
- to assign a class
- Relent
- to become gentler in attitude
- Remit
- to send as payment
- Remuneration
- pay or reward for work
- Renascent
- reborn, coming into being again
- Renage
- to go back on one’s work
- Renitent
- resisting pressure
- Rent
- torn apart
- Repast
- meal or mealtime
- Replete
- abundantly supplied
- Repose
- relaxation
- Reprehend
- to criticize
- Reprise
- repetition
- Reproach
- to find fault with, blame
- Reprobate
- morally unprincipled person
- Reprove
- to criticize or correct
- Requiem
- hymns for the dead
- Requite
- to return
- Restive
- Reticent
- reserved
- Retinue
- group of attendants with an important person
- Retort
- cutting response
- Retrench
- to regroup, reorganize
- Revile
- verbally abuse
- Revitalize
- to renew
- Rhapsody
- emotional literacy or musical work
- Rhetoric
- persuasive use of language
- Ribald
- humorous in a lewd way
- Riddle
- to make holes in, permeate
- Rife
- widespread
- Riposte
- a retort
- Robust
- strong and hardy
- Rococo
- very highly ornamented
- Roil
- to disturb or cause disorder
- Root
- to dig with a snout
- Rostrum
- a public stage for speaking
- Rue
- to regret
- Ruffled
- irritated
- Rustic
- rural
- Sacrosanct
- extremely sacred
- Salient
- prominent
- Sallow
- sickly yellow in color
- Sanction
- permission; law; penalty
- Sanguine
- ruddy; cheerfully optimistic
- Sap
- to weaken gradually
- Sapient
- wise
- Saunter
- to amble, walk in a leisurely way
- Scabbard
- sheath for a sword
- Scabrous
- dealing with indecent things
- Scale
- to climb to the top of
- Schism
- a division or separation
- Scintilla
- a small amount
- Scintillate
- to sparkle
- Scion
- a child
- Scoff
- to deride, ridicule
- Score
- to make a notch or scratch
- Scrivener
- professional copyist
- Scrupulous
- restrained careful person
- Scurrilous
- vulgar, low
- Secant
- straight line intersecting a curve at two points
- Sectarian
- narrow-minded
- Sedition
- behavior promoting rebellion
- Seminal
- relating to the beginning
- Sententious
- having a moralizing tone
- Sepulchral
- typical of a place of burial
- Seraphic
- angelic
- Serpentine
- serpent like, twisting
- Sheepish
- timid
- Shirk
- to avoid a task due to laziness
- Sidle
- to cause to turn sideways, to move along one side
- Simian
- apelike
- Simper
- to smirk
- Sinecure
- well paying job that doesn’t require much work
- Singe
- to burn slightly, scortch
- Sinuous
- winding
- Slake
- to calm down or moderate
- Slight
- to treat as unimportant
- Slipshod
- careless hasty
- Slough
- to discard or shed
- Smelt
- to melt metal in order to refine it
- Smutty
- obscene
- Sobriety
- seriousness
- Sodden
- soaked
- Sojourn
- visit, stay
- Solecism
- grammatical mistake
- Solicitous
- concerned, attentive
- Solidarity
- unity based on interests
- Solipsism
- belief that the self is the only reality
- Somnolent
- drowsy
- Sonic
- relating to sound
- Sophist
- person good at arguing deviously
- Sophistry
- deceptive reasoning
- Sordid
- filthy
- Sovereign
- having supreme power
- Spartan
- austere, severe
- Sportive
- playful
- Sprightly
- lively
- Spur
- to prod
- Spurn
- to reject or refuse contemptuously, scorn
- Squabble
- quarrel
- Squalid
- filthy
- Squander
- to waste
- Staccato
- marked by abrupt, clear cut sounds
- Staid
- self-restrained to the point of dullness
- Stalwart
- strong unwavering
- Stark
- bare, empty, vacant
- Stentorian
- extremely loud
- Stilted
- stiff, unnatural
- Stint
- period of time spent doing something; frugal
- Stockade
- enclosed area forming a defensive wall
- Stratagem
- trick designed to deceive an enemy
- Stricture
- something that restrains
- Strident
- loud, harsh
- Stripling
- an adolescent boy
- Stylize
- to fashion, formalize
- Stymie
- to block or thwart
- Subjection
- dependence, obedience, submission
- Sublimate
- to repress impulses
- Subterfuge
- trick or tactic used to avoid something
- Sufferable
- bearable
- Suffragist
- one who advocates extended voting rights
- Sullen
- brooding, gloomy
- Sully
- to soil
- Superannuated
- too old
- Supercilious
- arrogant
- Supererogatory
- unessential
- Superfluous
- extra
- Supplant
- to replace
- Supplicant
- one who asks humbly and earnestly
- Supposition
- assumption
- Surfeit
- excessive amount
- Surly
- rude and bad tempered
- Surmise
- to make an educated guess
- Surreptitious
- characterized by secrecy
- Swarthy
- having a dark complexion
- Sybarite
- person devoted to pleasure
- Syncopation
- temporary irregularity in musical rhythm