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Vocabulary 4D
Respite-Stingy
Term | Definition |
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Respite | Interval of rest |
Reticent | Reserved; unwillingly to communicate |
Revere | To respect highly; to worship |
Ritual | Established pattern of behavior, often ceremonial |
Salutary | Beneficial |
Sanction | To approve authoritatively (v); a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule (n) |
Sardonic | Scornfully mocking |
Secular | Nonreligious |
Self-effacing | Modest; humble |
Serenity | Calmness; peacefulness |
Shrewd | Characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances |
Solace | Comfort |
Solvent | Having sufficient funds |
Soporific | Causing sleep |
Sordid | Filthy; morally degraded |
Sparse | Thinly spread |
Specious | Something that has the appearance of truth but is actually false |
Spurious | Not genuine |
Squalid | Dirty and/or poverty-stricken |
Stingy | Cheap; unwilling to spend money |