| Term | Definition |
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| quixotic | extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable;impulsive and often rashly unpredictable. |
| quotidian | daily;usual or customary; everyday;ordinary; commonplaced;of a fever, ague, etc.characterized by paroxysms that recure daily |
| recapitulate | to review by a brief summary, as at the end of a speech or discussion; summarize.to restate (the exposition) in a sonata-form movement |
| recondite | dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter;beyond ordinary knowledge or understanding; esoteric;little known; obscure |
| remonstrate | to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval;to show;to present reasons in complaint; plead in protest |
| rubicund | red or reddish; ruddy |
| redolent | having a pleasant odor; fragrant;odorous or smelling suggestive; reminiscent |
| repugnant | distasteful, objectionable, or offensive;making opposition; averse;opposed or contrary, as in nature or character |
| sanguine | cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident;reddish; ruddy; blood red;bloody; sanguinary;a red iron-oxide crayon used in making drawings |
| sinecure | an office or position requiring little or no work, esp. one yielding profitable returns;an ecclesiastical benefice without cure of souls |
| sophistry | a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning;a false argument |
| spurious | not genuine, authentic, or true; not from the claimed, pretended, or proper source; counterfeit;of illegitimate birth; |
| stolid | not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive |
| supercilious | haughtily disdainful or contemptuous, as a person or a facial expression |
| subjugate | to bring under complete control or subjection; conquer; master;to make submissive or subservient; enslave |
| sesquipedalian | given to using long words;of a word containing many syllables |
| syzygy | Classical Prosody;a group or combination of two feet, sometimes restricted to a combination of two feet of different kinds;any two related things, either alike or opposite |
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