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punctilious
(adjective satellite) marked by precise accordance with details; "was worryingly meticulous about trivial details"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette"
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pundit
(noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
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pungency
(noun) a strong odor or taste property; "the pungency of mustard"; "the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange spices"
(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire"
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purvey
(verb) supply with provisions
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pusillanimous
(adjective satellite) lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful
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pyre
(noun) wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
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quack
(noun) the harsh sound of a duck
(noun) an untrained person who pretends to be a physician and who dispenses medical advice
(verb) act as a medical quack or a charlatan
(verb) utter quacking noises; "The ducks quacked"
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quaff
(noun) a hearty draft
(verb) to swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught; "The men gulped down their beers"
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quail
(noun) small gallinaceous game birds
(noun) flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
(verb) draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
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qualm
(noun) uneasiness about the fitness of an action
(noun) a mild state of nausea
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quell
(verb) suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion"
(verb) overcome or allay; "quell my hunger"
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quibble
(noun) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
(verb) argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"
(verb) evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections
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quiescent
(adjective satellite) causing no symptoms; "a quiescent tumor"
(adjective satellite) being quiet or still or inactive
(adjective satellite) not active or activated; "the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation"
(adjective satellite) marked by a state of tranquil repose; "the quiescent melancholy of the town"
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quirk
(noun) a narrow groove beside a beading
(noun) a strange attitude or habit
(verb) twist or curve abruptly; "She quirked her head in a peculiar way"
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quixotic
(adjective satellite) not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state"
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quotidian
(adjective satellite) found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant
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rabble
(noun) a disorderly crowd of people
(noun) disparaging terms for the common people
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radiant
(adjective satellite) radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset"
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raffish
(adjective satellite) marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness; "a cocktail party given by some...raffish bachelors"- Crary Moore
(adjective satellite) marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
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rail
(noun) any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
(noun) a horizontal bar (usually of wood)
(noun) short for railway; "he traveled by rail"; "he was concerned with rail safety"
(noun) a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
(noun) a bar or bars of rolled steel making a track along which vehicles can roll
(verb) criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"
(verb) spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"
(verb) complain bitterly
(verb) fish with a hand-line over the rails of a boat; "They are railing for fresh fish"
(verb) lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here"
(verb) travel by rail or train; "They railed from Rome to Venice"; "She trained to Hamburg"
(verb) convey (goods etc.) by rails; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium"
(verb) separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace"
(verb) provide with rails; "The yard was railed"
(verb) enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves"
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ramify
(verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
(verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"
(verb) have or develop complicating consequences; "These actions will ramify"
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rancorous
(adjective satellite) showing deep-seated resentment; "preserve...from rancourous envy of the rich"- Aldous Huxley
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rant
(noun) pompous or pretentious talk or writing
(noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
(verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
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rapacious
(adjective satellite) devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks"
(adjective satellite) excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments"
(adjective satellite) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal"
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rarefy
(verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
(verb) make more subtle or refined
(verb) lessen the density or solidity of; "The bones are rarefied"
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reactionary
(noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism
(adjective satellite) extremely conservative
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rebuff
(noun) a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
(noun) an instance of driving away or warding off
(verb) reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"
(verb) force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"
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recalcitrant
(adjective satellite) marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"
(adjective satellite) marked by stubborn resistance to and defiant of authority or guidance; "a recalcitrant teenager"; "everything revolves around a refractory individual genius"
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recant
(verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"
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recast
(verb) cast or model anew; "She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home state"
(verb) cast again; "The bell cracked and had to be recast"
(verb) cast again, in a different role; "He was recast as Iago"
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recidivism
(noun) habitual relapse into crime
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reciprocity
(noun) mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges
(noun) a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence
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recluse
(noun) one who lives in solitude
(adjective satellite) withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life"
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recompense
(noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury
(noun) payment or reward (as for service rendered)
(verb) make payment to; compensate; "My efforts were not remunerated"
(verb) make amends for; pay compensation for; "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"; "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident"
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reconcile
(verb) bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities"
(verb) make compatible with; "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"
(verb) accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"
(verb) come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up"
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recondite
(adjective satellite) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
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recourse
(noun) act of turning to for assistance; "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort"
(noun) something or someone turned to for assistance or security; "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying"
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recuperate
(verb) get over an illness or shock; "The patient is recuperating"
(verb) restore to good health or strength
(verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss; "We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90"; "The company managed to recuperate"
(verb) regain or make up for; "recuperate one's losses"
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redeem
(verb) convert into cash; of commercial papers
(verb) pay off (loans or promissory notes)
(verb) exchange or buy back for money; under threat
(verb) save from sins
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redemptive
(adjective satellite) bringing about salvation or redemption from sin; "saving faith"; "redemptive (or redeeming) love"
(adjective) of or relating to or resulting in redemption; "a redemptive theory about life"- E.K.Brown
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redoubtable
(adjective satellite) inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall"
(adjective satellite) having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family"
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redundant
(adjective satellite) repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant
(adjective satellite) use of more words than required to express an idea; "a wordy gossipy account of a simple incident"; "a redundant text crammed with amplifications of the obvious"
(adjective satellite) more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare
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refine
(verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"
(verb) make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"
(verb) attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying; "many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet"
(verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"
(verb) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar"
(verb) treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"
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refractory
(noun) lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace
(adjective satellite) resistant to authority or control; "as refractory as a mule"
(adjective satellite) stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"
(adjective satellite) marked by stubborn resistance to and defiant of authority or guidance; "a recalcitrant teenager"; "everything revolves around a refractory individual genius"
(adjective satellite) not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"
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refulgent
(adjective satellite) radiating or as if radiating light; "the beaming sun"; "the effulgent daffodils"; "a radiant sunrise"; "a refulgent sunset"
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refute
(verb) prove to be false or incorrect
(verb) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"
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regale
(verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink; "Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated her houseguests with good food every night"