SAT Vocabulary Page 25

• quartet n. A composition for four voices or four instruments.
• quarto n. An eight-page newspaper of any size.
• quay n. A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it.
• querulous adj. Habitually complaining.
• query v. To make inquiry.
• queue n. A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance.
• quibble n. An utterly trivial distinction or objection.
• quiescence n. Quiet.
• quiescent adj. Being in a state of repose or inaction.
• quiet adj. Making no noise.
• quietus n. A silencing, suppressing, or ending.
• quintessence n. The most essential part of anything.
• quintet n. Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments.
• quite adv. Fully.
• Quixotic adj. Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree.
• rabid adj. Affected with rabies or hydrophobia.
• racy adj. Exciting or exhilarating to the mind.
• radiance n. Brilliant or sparkling luster.
• radiate v. To extend in all directions, as from a source or focus.
• radical n. One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures.
• radix n. That from or on which something is developed.
• raillery n. Good-humored satire.
• ramify v. To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions.
• ramose adj. Branch-like.
• rampant adj. Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint.
• rampart n. A bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry.
• rancor n. Malice.
• rankle v. To produce irritation or festering.
• rapacious adj. Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
• rapid adj. Having great speed.
• rapine n. The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war.
• rapt adj. Enraptured.
• raptorial adj. Seizing and devouring living prey.
• ration v. To provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food.
• rationalism n. The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority.
• raucous adj. Harsh.
• ravage v. To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.
• ravenous adj. Furiously voracious or hungry.
• ravine n. A deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water.
• reaction n. Tendency towards a former, or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution, or inflation.
• reactionary adj. Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction.
• readily adv. Without objection or reluctance.
• readjust v. To put in order after disarrangement.
• ready adj. In a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion.
• realism n. The principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist.
• rearrange v. To arrange again or in a different order.
• reassure v. To give new confidence.
• rebellious adj. Insubordinate.
• rebuff n. A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches.
• rebuild v. To build again or anew.
• rebut v. To oppose by argument or a sufficient answer.
• recant v. To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained).
• recapitulate v. To repeat again the principal points of.
• recapture v. To capture again.
• recede v. To move back or away.
• receivable adj. Capable of being or fit to be received - often money.
• receptive adj. Having the capacity, quality, or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions.
• recessive adj. Having a tendency to go back.
• recidivist n. A confirmed criminal.
• reciprocal adj. Mutually interchangeable or convertible.
• reciprocate v. To give and take mutually.
• reciprocity n. Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed.
• recitation n. The act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory.
• reck v. To have a care or thought for.
• reckless adj. Foolishly headless of danger.
• reclaim v. To demand or to obtain the return or restoration of.
• recline v. To cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position.
• recluse n. One who lives in retirement or seclusion.
• reclusory n. A hermitage.
• recognizance n. An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act.
• recognize v. To recall the identity of (a person or thing).
• recoil v. To start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread.
• recollect v. To recall the knowledge of.
• reconcilable adj. Capable of being adjusted or harmonized.
• reconnoiter v. To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geological purposes.
• reconsider v. To review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action.
• reconstruct v. To rebuild.
• recourse n. Resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble.
• recover v. To regain.
• recreant n. A cowardly or faithless person.
• recreate v. To refresh after labor.
• recrudescence n. The state of becoming raw or sore again.
• recrudescent adj. Becoming raw or sore again.
• recruit v. To enlist men for military or naval service.
• rectify v. To correct.
• rectitude n. The quality of being upright in principles and conduct.
• recuperate v. To recover.
• recur v. To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
• recure v. To cure again.
• recurrent adj. Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals.
• redemption n. The recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt.
• redolent adj. Smelling sweet and agreeable.
• redolence n. Smelling sweet and agreeable.
• redoubtable adj. Formidable.
• redound n. Rebound.
• redress v. To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer.
• reducible adj. That may be reduced.
• redundance n. Excess.
• redundant adj. Constituting an excess.
• reestablish v. To restore.
• refer v. To direct or send for information or other purpose.
• referrer n. One who refers.
• referable adj. Ascribable.
• referee n. An umpire.
• refinery n. A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
• reflectible adj. Capable of being turned back.
• reflection n. The throwing off or back of light, heat, sound, or any form of energy that travels in waves.
• reflector n. A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular direction.
• reflexible adj. Capable of being reflected.
• reform n. Change for the better.
• reformer n. One who carries out a reform.
• refract v. To bend or turn from a direct course.
• refractory adj. Not amenable to control.
• refragable adj. Capable of being refuted.
• refringency n. Power to refract.
• refringent adj. Having the power to refract.
• refusal n. Denial of what is asked.
• refute v. To prove to be wrong.
• regale v. To give unusual pleasure.
• regalia n. pl. The emblems of royalty.
• regality n. Royalty.
• regenerate v. To reproduce.
• regent n. One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler.
• regicide n. The killing of a king or sovereign.
• regime n. Particular conduct or administration of affairs.
• regimen n. A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits.
• regiment n. A body of soldiers.
• regnant adj. Exercising royal authority in one's own right.
• regress v. To return to a former place or condition.
• regretful adj. Feeling, expressive of, or full of regret.
• rehabilitate v. To restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege.
• reign v. To hold and exercise sovereign power.
• reimburse v. To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended.
• rein n. A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal.
• reinstate v. To restore to a former state, station, or authority.
• reiterate v. To say or do again and again.
• rejoin v. To reunite after separation.
• rejuvenate v. To restore to youth.
• rejuvenescence n. A renewal of youth.
• relapse v. To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery.
• relegate v. To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination.
• relent v. To yield.
• relevant adj. Bearing upon the matter in hand.
• reliance n. Dependence.
• reliant adj. Having confidence.
• relinquish v. To give up using or having.
• reliquary n. A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
• relish v. To like the taste or savor of.
• reluctance n. Unwillingness.
• reluctant adj. Unwilling.
• remembrance n. Recollection.
• reminiscence n. The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience.
• reminiscent adj. Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest.
• remiss adj. Negligent.
• remission n. Temporary diminution of a disease.
• remodel v. Reconstruct.
• remonstrance n. Reproof.
• remonstrant adj. Having the character of a reproof.
• remonstrate v. To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong.
• remunerate v. To pay or pay for.
• remuneration n. Compensation.
• Renaissance n. The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time.
• rendezvous n. A prearranged place of meeting.