SAT Vocabulary Page 26

• rendition n. Interpretation.
• renovate v. To restore after deterioration, as a building.
• renunciation n. An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege.
• reorganize v. To change to a more satisfactory form of organization.
• reparable adj. Capable of repair.
• reparation n. The act of making amends, as for an injury, loss, or wrong.
• repartee n. A ready, witty, or apt reply.
• repeal v. To render of no further effect.
• repel v. To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally.
• repellent adj. Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally.
• repentance n. Sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong.
• repertory n. A place where things are stored or gathered together.
• repetition n. The act of repeating.
• repine v. To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding.
• replenish v. To fill again, as something that has been emptied.
• replete adj. Full to the uttermost.
• replica n. A duplicate executed by the artist himself, and regarded, equally with the first, as an original.
• repository n. A place in which goods are stored.
• reprehand v. To find fault with.
• reprehensible adj. Censurable.
• reprehension n. Expression of blame.
• repress v. To keep under restraint or control.
• repressible adj. Able to be kept under restraint or control.
• reprieve v. To grant a respite from punishment to.
• reprimand v. To chide or rebuke for a fault.
• reprisal n. Any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy.
• reprobate n. One abandoned to depravity and sin.
• reproduce v. To make a copy of.
• reproduction n. The process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind.
• reproof n. An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured.
• repudiate v. To refuse to have anything to do with.
• repugnance n. Thorough dislike.
• repugnant adj. Offensive to taste and feeling.
• repulse n. The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy.
• repulsive adj. Grossly offensive.
• repute v. To hold in general opinion.
• requiem n. A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
• requisite adj. Necessary.
• requital n. Adequate return for good or ill.
• requite v. To repay either good or evil to, as to a person.
• rescind v. To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
• reseat v. To place in position of office again.
• resemblance n. Similarity in quality or form.
• resent v. To be indignant at, as an injury or insult.
• reservoir n. A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept.
• residue n. A remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated.
• resilience n. The power of springing back to a former position
• resilient adj. Having the quality of springing back to a former position.
• resistance n. The exertion of opposite effort or effect.
• resistant adj. Offering or tending to produce resistance.
• resistive adj. Having or exercising the power of resistance.
• resistless adj. Powerless.
• resonance n. The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
• resonance adj. Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
• resonate v. To have or produce resonance.
• resource n. That which is restored to, relied upon, or made available for aid or support.
• respite n. Interval of rest.
• resplendent adj. Very bright.
• respondent adj. Answering.
• restitution n. Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs.
• resumption n. The act of taking back, or taking again.
• resurgent adj. Surging back or again.
• resurrection n. A return from death to life
• resuscitate v. To restore from apparent death.
• retaliate v. To repay evil with a similar evil.
• retch v. To make an effort to vomit.
• retention n. The keeping of a thing within one's power or possession.
• reticence n. The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
• reticent adj. Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
• retinue n. The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance.
• retort n. A retaliatory speech.
• retouch v. To modify the details of.
• retrace v. To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking.
• retract v. To recall or take back (something that one has said).
• retrench v. To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity.
• retrieve v. To recover something by searching.
• retroactive adj. Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities.
• retrograde v. To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
• retrogression n. A going or moving backward or in a reverse direction.
• retrospect n. A view or contemplation of something past.
• retrospective adj. Looking back on the past.
• reunite v. To unite or join again, as after separation.
• revelation n. A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknown.
• revere v. To regard with worshipful veneration.
• reverent adj. Humble.
• reversion n. A return to or toward some former state or condition.
• revert v. To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like.
• revile v. To heap approach or abuse upon.
• revisal n. Revision.
• revise v. To examine for the correction of errors, or for the purpose of making changes.
• revocation n. Repeal.
• revoke v. To rescind.
• rhapsody n. Rapt or rapturous utterance.
• rhetoric n. The art of discourse.
• rhetorician n. A showy writer or speaker.
• ribald adj. Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity.
• riddance n. The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable.
• ridicule n. Looks or acts expressing amused contempt.
• ridiculous adj. Laughable and contemptible.
• rife adj. Abundant.
• righteousness n. Rectitude.
• rightful adj. Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage.
• rigmarole n. Nonsense.
• rigor n. Inflexibility.
• rigorous adj. Uncompromising.
• ripplet n. A small ripple, as of water.
• risible adj. capable of exciting laughter.
• rivulet n. A small stream or brook.
• robust adj. Characterized by great strength or power of endurance.
• rondo n. A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times.
• rookery n. A place where crows congregate to breed.
• rotary adj. Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus.
• rotate v. To cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel.
• rote n. Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention.
• rotund adj. Round from fullness or plumpness.
• rudimentary adj. Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development.
• rue v. To regret extremely.
• ruffian adj. A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow.
• ruminant adj. Chewing the cud.
• ruminate v. To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated.
• rupture v. To separate the parts of by violence.
• rustic adj. Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
• ruth n. Sorrow for another's misery.
• sacrifice v. To make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar.
• sacrificial adj. Offering or offered as an atonement for sin.
• sacrilege n. The act of violating or profaning anything sacred.
• sacrilegious adj. Impious.
• safeguard v. To protect.
• sagacious adj. Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception.
• salacious adj. Having strong sexual desires.
• salience n. The condition of standing out distinctly.
• salient adj. Standing out prominently.
• saline adj. Constituting or consisting of salt.
• salutary adj. Beneficial.
• salutation n. Any form of greeting, hailing, or welcome, whether by word or act.
• salutatory n. The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges.
• salvage n. Any act of saving property.
• salvo n. A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
• sanctimonious adj. Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety.
• sanction v. To approve authoritatively.
• sanctity n. Holiness.
• sanguinary adj. Bloody.
• sanguine adj. Having the color of blood.
• sanguineous adj. Consisting of blood.
• sapid adj. Affecting the sense of taste.
• sapience n. Deep wisdom or knowledge.
• sapient adj. Possessing wisdom.
• sapiential adj. Possessing wisdom.
• saponaceous adj. Having the nature or quality of soap.
• sarcasm n. Cutting and reproachful language.
• sarcophagus n. A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
• sardonic adj. Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
• satiate v. To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
• satire n. The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.
• satiric adj. Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
• satirize v. To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.
• satyr n. A very lascivious person.
• savage n. A wild and uncivilized human being.
• savor v. To perceive by taste or smell.
• scabbard n. The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon.
• scarcity n. Insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands.
• scholarly adj. Characteristic of an erudite person.
• scholastic adj. Pertaining to education or schools.
• scintilla n. The faintest ray.
• scintillate v. To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light.
• scope n. A range of action or view.
• scoundrel n. A man without principle.
• scribble n. Hasty, careless writing.