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| reticent | disinclined to speak out; reserved | S: taciturn, uncommunicative | A: voluble, prolix, loquacious | P: run off at the mouth |
| retribution | payment for something else, especially punishment | S: requital, recompense, redress | P: one'es just deserts |
| retroactive | applying to a period prior to enactment | S: retrospective | P: ex post facto law, a priori argument |
| reverberate | to echo over and over; resound | S: rebound, recoil, resonate | P: recoil of a rifle |
| revere | to hold in great awe | S: venerate, idolize, esteem | A: revile, exacerate, disparage, denigrate | P: hero worship |
| ritual | something regularly practiced | S: liturgy, formalities, ceremonial | P: stand on ceremony |
| rudiment | a basic principle | S: fundamentals, first principles | P: start out on the right foot, embryonic stage of development |
| ruminate | ponder at length | S: masticate, mull over, muse on, cogitate | P: put on one's thinking cap |
| ruse | action designed to confuse | S: strategem, ploy, subterfuge | P: a red herring |
| sabotage | to destroy maliciously or stealthily | S: subvert, hamstring, treachery | P: throw a monkey wrench into the works; fifth column; job action |
| sacrilegious | disrespectul of sacred things | S: impious, blasphemous, reprobate, iconoclastic | A: pious, devout |
| salient | prominent or conspicuous | S: protuberance, pronounced | A: inconspicuous, unobtrusive |
| sanctimonious | insincere show of being holy | S: hypocritical, canting, simon-pure | A: heartfelt | P: a stuffed shirt |
| sanguine | cheerfully confident or optimistic | S: rubicund, florid | A: pallid, wan | P: Pollyanna, prophet of doom (antonym) |
| satellite | country under domination of a more powerful country | S: appendage, protectorate, client | A: hegemony, dominion | P: sphere of influence, client state, parent organization |
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