| A | B |
|---|
| Quixotic | stems from Don Quixote by Cervantes |
| Raucous | boisterous, noisy and disorderly |
| Rebuff | to snub |
| Rebuke | to criticize or reprimand |
| Reciprocal | mutual |
| Relegate | to lessen the priority |
| Relic | something from the past |
| Replenish | to refill, to replace, to restock |
| Reprehensible | deserving of censure |
| Reprove | to gently criticize |
| Rescind | to cancel, repeal |
| Resilience | when elastic loses __ it breaks |
| Respite | a break from the daily grind |
| Resplendent | brilliant, gloriously bright |
| Robust | strong and healthy |
| Rustic | primitive, rural |
| Saccharine | excessively sweet |
| Sardonic | disdainful, scornfully mocking |
| Scanty | minimal, not sufficient |
| Scintillate | to sparkle |
| Servile | submissive, acting like a slave or toady |
| Slothful | lazy, indolent, a layabout |
| Spurious | false, fake, not genuine |
| Stagnate | __ water breeds mosquitoes |
| Static | stationary |
| Steadfast | loyal, faithful |
| Stoic | showing indifference to pain |
| Stratagem | a trick or deceptive scheme |
| Strident | loud, harsh, grating |
| Stymie | to get in the way, to hinder, to block |
| Succinct | concise |
| Surfeit | abundance, excessive amount |
| Surmise | to conjecture |
| Tedious | tiresome |
| Teem | to become full to overflowing |
| Temperance | avoidance of excess, moderation |
| Tenet | principle, belief, doctrine |
| Tentative | uncertain, temporary, not fully worked out |
| Tenuous | derived from the French tener |
| Tepid | lukewarm, unenthusiastic |
| Terse | concise |
| Theology | derived from Greek for god |
| Thwart | to frustrate, hinder, prevent |
| Tirade | Hitler gave this type of speech |
| Tonic | health drink |
| Tout | to praise highly, often too highly |
| Transfix | to stop you in your tracks |
| Travesty | an imitation, a __ of justice |
| Trite | unoriginal, overused, a cliche |
| Trivial | unimportant, insignificant |
| Tryst | a secret meeting of lovers |
| Tumult | noisy commotion, uproar |
| Turpitude | shameful wickedness, depravity |
| Undermine | weaken the support of |
| Unilateral | one sided |
| Urbane | sophisticated, suave |
| Usurp | to seize power by force and not by right |
| Vapid | tasteless, dull |
| Vehement | marked by strong feeling |
| Verbose | comes from the Latin for word |
