The Century Vocabulary Builder eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 319 pages of information about The Century Vocabulary Builder.

The Century Vocabulary Builder eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 319 pages of information about The Century Vocabulary Builder.

Queer, odd, curious, quaint, ridiculous, singular, unique, bizarre, fantastic, grotesque.

Rash, incautious, reckless, foolhardy, adventurous, venturous,
venturesome. 
Rebellion, insurrection, revolt, mutiny, riot, revolution, sedition. 
Recover, regain, retrieve, recoup, rally, recuperate. 
Reflect, deliberate, ponder, muse, meditate, ruminate. 
Relate, recount, recite, narrate, tell. 
Replace, supersede, supplant, succeed. 
Repulsive, unsightly, loathsome, hideous, grewsome. 
Requital, retaliation, reprisal, revenge, vengeance, retribution. 
Responsible, answerable, accountable, amenable, liable. 
Reveal, disclose, divulge, manifest, show, betray. 
Reverence, veneration, awe, adoration, worship. 
Ridicule, deride, mock, taunt, flout, twit, tease. 
Ripe, mature, mellow. 
Rise, arise, mount, ascend. 
Rogue, knave, rascal, miscreant, scamp, sharper, villain. 
Round, circular, rotund, spherical, globular, orbicular. 
Rub, polish, burnish, furbish, scour.

Sad, grave, sober, moody, doleful, downcast, dreary, woeful, somber,
unhappy, woebegone, mournful, depressed, despondent, gloomy, melancholy,
heavy-spirited, sorrowful, dismal, dejected, disconsolate, miserable,
lugubrious. 
Satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, glut, gorge. 
Scoff, jeer, gibe, fleer, sneer, mock, taunt. 
Secret, covert, surreptitious, furtive, clandestine, underhand, stealthy. 
Seep, ooze, infiltrate, percolate, transude, exude. 
Sell, barter, vend, trade. 
Shape, form, figure, outline, conformation, configuration, contour,
profile. 
Share, partake, participate, divide. 
Sharp, keen, acute, cutting, trenchant, incisive. 
Shore, coast, littoral, beach, strand, bank. 
Shorten, abridge, abbreviate, curtail, truncate, syncopate. 
Show (noun), display, ostentation, parade, pomp, splurge. 
Show, exhibit, display, expose, manifest, evince. 
Shrink, flinch, wince, blench, quail. 
Shun, avoid, eschew. 
Shy, bashful, diffident, modest, coy, timid, shrinking. 
Sign, omen, auspice, portent, prognostic, augury, foretoken, adumbration,
presage, indication. 
Simple, innocent, artless, unsophisticated, naive. 
Skilful, skilled, expert, adept, apt, proficient, adroit, dexterous, deft,
clever, ingenious. 
Skin, hide, pelt, fell. 
Sleepy, drowsy, slumberous, somnolent, sluggish, torpid, dull, lethargic. 
Slovenly, slatternly, dowdy, frowsy, blowzy. 
Sly, crafty, cunning, subtle, wily, artful, politic, designing. 
Smile, smirk, grin. 
Solitary, lonely, lone, lonesome, desolate, deserted, uninhabited. 
Sour, acid, tart, acrid, acidulous, acetose, acerbitous, astringent. 
Speech, discourse, oration, address, sermon, declamation, dissertation,
exhortation, disquisition, harangue, diatribe, tirade, screed, philippic,
invective, rhapsody, plea. 
Spruce, natty, dapper, smart, chic. 

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