Webster Essential Vocabulary

rural(RUR il) adj. 1. not urban or suburban; of the countryside; 2. living in the
country; 3. having to do with farming

• RuralAmerica is where you’ll find the cows grazing.


• Grant Wood’s American Gothicdepicts an imaginary, typical, ruralcouple
  (who have no relation to a real one).


• A plow and a tractor are necessities of ruralliving.
  [-ly adv.] [Syn. bucolic, pastoral, rustic]

Quick Review #74.

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

206 Essential Vocabulary

1. reverence


2. revulsion


3. rhetoric


4. ridicule


5. rite


6. romantic


7. ruffian


8. rural

a. idealized

b. bucolic

c. honor

d. phony eloquence

e. taunt

f. aversion

g. tough guy

h. ceremony