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Vocab 47


1.       Rebuff (v): To refuse to accept a helpful suggestion or offer from someone, often by answering in an unfriendly way
She rebuffed all the suggestions that she would resign.

2.       Recant (v): To announce in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them.
After a year spent in solitary confinement, he publicly recanted (his views)

3.       Confinement (n): When a person or animal is kept somewhere, usually by force.
She spent most of those years under house arrest or close confinement.

4.       Recluse (n): A person who lives alone and avoids going outside or talking to other people.
He is a millionare recluse who refuses to give interviews.

5.       Recondite (adj): Not known about by many people and difficult to understand.
We had to work from material that was both complex and recondite.

6.       Relegate (v): To put someone or something into a lower or less important rank or position
She resigned when she was relegated to a desk job.

7.       Reprimand (n): Strong disapproval (to scold)
She was reprimanded by her teacher for biting another girl.

8.       Revere (v): To very much respect and admire someone or something.
Nelson Mandela is revered for his brave fight against apartheid.

9.       Salubrious (adj): Describes a place that is pleasant, clean, and healthy to live in.
He doesn’t live in a very salubrious part of town.

10.   Scrupulous (adj): Extremely honest, or doing everything correctly and exactly as it should be done.
A scrupulous boy will never go against his parents.

11.   Sedition (n): Language or behavior that is intended to persuade other people to oppose their government.

Seditious (adj): She was arrested after making a speech that the government considered to be seditious.

12.   Sententious (adj): Trying to appear wise, clever and important
The document was sententious and pompous.

13.   Pompous (adj): Too serious and full importance.
He can sometimes sound a bit pompous when he talks about acting.

Pomposity, pompousness (n)
Pompously (adv)

14.   Servile (adj): Too eager to serve and please someone else in a way that shows you do not have much respect for yourself
As a waiter you want to be pleasant to people without appearing totally servile.

15.   Somber (adj): Serious, sad and without humor or entertainment.
A somber atmosphere/face/smile



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