Webster Essential Vocabulary

Quick Review #71.

Match the word from column 2 with the word from column 1 that means most
nearly the same thing.

200 Essential Vocabulary

1. reconnoiter


2. recrimination


3. rectify


4. redoubtable


5. reductive


6. redundancy


7. refract


8. refute


9. regale


10. regurgitate


11. reiterate


12. relapse

a. formidable

b. disprove

c. bend

d. entertain

e. survey

f. vomit

g. superfluity

h. recurrence

i. repeat

j. correct

k. countercharge

l. lowering

relinquish (ri LIN kwish) vt.1. to abandon (a claim); 2. to surrender
(something); 3. to give up

• Carla relinquishedall claim to part ownership of Ira’s cat.


• By the Treaty of Torsedilla, Spain relinquishedall claims on Brazil to
  Portugal.


• Mike relinquishedhis sidearm to the palace guard.
  [-ed, -ing] [Syn. abandon, waive, forego]
  reluctant(ri LUHK tint) adj.1. unwilling or opposed to participating in;
  disinclined; 2. marked by unwillingness


• The defendant in most trials is usually a reluctantparticipant.


• Mark seemed reluctantto accept Abbie’s excuse for not being able to go
  bowling on Thursday night.
  [-ly adv.] [Syn. loath, unwilling]
  remiss(ri MISS) adj. 1. negligent in; careless about; lax; 2. marked by careless-
  ness or negligence


• Don’t be remissin paying your income taxes on time.


• The yard clearly showed that the house’s last owner had been remissin
  performing lawn maintenance.
  [Syn. negligent, neglectful, lax]
  remnant (REM nint) n. 1. what is left over; remainder; 2. a small remaining
  part or quantity; 3. last trace; 4. a piece of cloth or carpet left at the end of a roll


• Only a small remnantof the turkey remained after the feasters at Bob and
  Barbara’s were finished with it.