| Term | Definition |
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| quixotic | adj: extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable; impulsive and often rashly unpredictable |
| quotidian | adj: found in the ordinary course of events; everyday, reocurring or recurring |
| recapitulate | verb: summarize briefly |
| recondite | adj: abstruse; not easily understood; profound; secret; little known; obscure; beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding |
| remonstrate | verb: to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval |
| rubicund | adj: red or reddish; ruddy |
| redolent | adj: having a strong distinctive fragrance; suggestive; reminiscent |
| repugnant | adj: distasteful, objectionable, or offensive |
| sanguine | adj: cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident; reddish; ruddy; blood-red; |
| sinecure | noun: an office that involves minimal duties; an ecclesiastical benefice without cure of souls |
| sophistry | noun: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone |
| spurious | adj: intended to deceive; of illegitimate birth |
| stolid | adj: not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive |
| supercilious | adj: haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression |
| subjugate | verb: to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master; enslave |
| sesquipedalian | adj: given to using long words; (of a word) containing many syllables |
| syzygy | noun: any two related things, either alike or opposite |
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