| A | B |
|---|
| renege | to fail to honor a commit, to go back on a promise |
| repudiate | to refuse to have anything to do with, to disown |
| rescind | to invalidate, to repeal, to retract |
| reticent | quiet, reserved, reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
| reverent | marked by, feeling, or expressing profound awe and respect |
| rhetoric | the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
| salubrious | promoting health or well-being |
| sanction | authoritative permission or approval, a penalty intended to enforce compliance |
| satire | a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision |
| sedulous | diligent, persistent, hard-working |
| shard | a piece of broken pottery or glass |
| solicitous | concerned and attentive, eager |
| solvent | able to meet financial obligations, able to dissove another substance |
| soporific | causing drowsiness, tending to induce sleep |
| sordid | characterized by filth, grime, or squalor, foul |
| specious | seeming true, but actually being fallacious, misleadingly attractive |
| spendthrift | one who spends money wastefully |
| spurious | lacking authenticity or validity, false, counterfeit |
| squalid | sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect |
| stoic | indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, steadfast |
