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Quixotic
- extravagantly chivalrous or romantic
- visionary
- impractical
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Rancourous
- malicious
- resentful
- hostile
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Rarefy
- to make rarer
- to make more refined/spiritual
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Raze
- to tear down
- demolish
- to shave or scrape off
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Recalcitrant
- resisting authority or control
- not obedient
- hard to deal with/manage/operate
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Recant
- to withdraw or disavow formally
- retract
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Reprobate
- a depraved/unprincipled/wicked person
- a person rejected by god and beyond hope of salvation.
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Ribald
- vulgar or indecent in speech/language
- coarsely mocking
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Ruminate
- to meditate
- ponder
- "to chew over and over"
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Saccharine
- very sweet to the taste
- sugary
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Savant
- a person of profound or extensive learning
- learned scholar
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Stultify
to cause to appear foolish/ridiculous
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Supercilious
- disdainful, as a person or a facial expression.
- dislikable
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Surfeit
- excess
- an excessive amount
- overindulgence in eating/drinking
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Surly
- unfriendly or hostile
- menacingly irritable
- churlishly or bad-tempered
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Taciturn
- inclined to silence
- reserved in speech
- reluctant to join inconversation.
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Tantamount
- equivalent, as in value/force/effect/or signification
- like a simile to something
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Tenuous
- thin or slender in form (as a thread)lacking a sound basis, as reasoning
- a tenuous argument
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Trepidation
- tremulous fear/alarm/agitation
- perturbation
- trembling or quivering movement
- tremor
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Turgid
- inflated
- pompous (dignified or important)
- turgid language.
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Turpitude
- a vile or depraved act
- shameful
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Undulate
- to have a wavy form or surface
- display asmooth rising-and-falling or side-to-side alternation of movement
- rise and fall of pitch
- The flag undulates in the breeze
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Unwieldy
- not readily handled ormanaged in use or action because of size/shape/weight
- awkward/bulky
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Veracity
- habitual in truth in/speech
- truthfulness
- He was not noted for his veracity
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Verbose
characterized by the use of too many words
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Viable
- able to live and grow
- physically fitted to live
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Virulent
- actively poisonous
- highly infective (as in medicine)
- malignant or deadly
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Vociferous
- loud
- noisy
- a vociferous manner of expression
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Vouchsafe
- to grant/give/allow/permit, as by graciousness
- to vouchsafe a reply to a question
- They vouchsafed his return to his own country.
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Zenith
- a highest point or state
- culmination
- the point on the celestial sphere vertically above a given position or observer
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