R – Z Words

summer girl reading words

 

R

• RECIPROCITY
  • RELATIONSHIP INVOLVING MUTUAL EXCHANGE
• REDUNDANT
  • UNNECESSARY
• REMONSTRATE
  • TO URGE REASONS IN OPPOSITION TO
• REPLETE
  • OVERFLOWING
  • ABUNDANCE
• REPOSE
  • TO LIE
• REPRESSION
  • CHECKING OF ONES TRUE FEELINGS
• RETINUE
  • PEOPLE WHO SURROUND IMPORTANT PEOPLE
• RIPARIAN
  • OWNER OF PROPERTY ON A RIVER BANK
• RIPSNORTER
  • ONE WHO IS REMARKABLE FOR STRENGTH
• ROTE
  • REPETITION OF WORDS TO REMEMBER

 

S

• SAGE
  • ONE WHO IS WISE
• SANS
  • WITHOUT
• SAPIENT
  • GREAT WISDOM OR DISCERNMENT
• SCRUPULOUS
  • HAVING MORAL INTEGRITY
• SEDULOUS
  • DILIGENT, PERSEVERING
• SINISTER
  • LEFT HANDED
  • THREATENING
• SENTENTIOUS
  • GIVEN TO EXCESSIVE MORALIZING
• SERE
  • DRIED UP
  • WITHERED
  • USED IN OLD POETRY
• SHYSTER
  • LAWYER WHO IS MANIPULATIVE AND DISREPUTABLE
• SLAKE
  • QUENCH
  • SATISFY
• SODDEN
  • SOAKED THROUGH
  • SATURATED
• SPATE
  • A SUDDEN FLOOD OR OUTPOURING
• STUPOR
  • A DAZED CONDITION
• SURREAL
  • INTENSE REALITY OF A DREAM

 

T

• TEMERITY
  • UNREASONABLE, FOOLHARDY
  • CONTEMPT OF OPPOSITION
• TENACIOUS
  • NOT EASY TO PULL APART
• TENACITY
  • PERSISTENT
• TITTLE
  • THE DOT ON THE “i”
• TRUCULENT
  • BEHAVIOR THAT IS BAD TEMPERED
  • ARGUMENTATIVE

 

U

• UBIQUITOUS
  • BEING IN SEVERAL PLACES AT ONE TIME
• UMBRIFEROUS
  • PROVIDING SHADE
• UNCEREMONIOUSLY
  • DONE WITHOUT FORMALITY OR CEREMONY
• URBANE
  • REFINED AND ELEGANT

V

• VERBOSE
  • TALKATIVE, WORDY
• VIGNETTE
  • SHORT ESSAY
• VITUPERATE
  • TO ATTACK SOMEONE VICIOUSLY WITH WORDS
• VOLUPTUARY
  • SOMEONE WHO LOVES THE GOOD LIFE

 

W

• WANGLE
  • CONTRIVE
  • PLAN OUT A SUBTLE PLAN
• WREST
  • TWIST OR TAKE BY VIOLENCE

 

X

• XENOPHOBIA
  • FEAR OF FOREIGN PEOPLE OR THINGS

 

Z

• ZEALOT
  • INTENSELY DEVOTED TO A CAUSE
• ZEPHYR
  • GENTLE WIND