10th lit vocab list 3

adj. ascetic

hermit-like, practicing self denial

adj. astute

shrewd; keen in judgment

n. attrition/atrophy

gradual wearing away, weaking, or loss; a natural or expected decrease in numbers or size

v. augment

to make bigger; to add to; to increase

adj. austere

unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess

v. rebuke

to criticize sharply

v. rebut

to contradict; to argue in opposition to, to prove to be false

adj. recalcitrant

stubbornly defiant of authority or control, disobedient

v. recant

to publicly take back and deny(something previously sold or believed), to openly confess error

adj. reciprocal

mutual, shared, interchangeable

reclusive

adj. hermitlike, withdrawal from society

recondite

adj. hard to understand, over ones head

recrimination

n. a bitter counteraccusation or the act of making a bitter counteraccusation

redolent

adj. fragrant

redundant

adj. unnecessarily repetitive, excessive, excessively wordy

refute

v. to prove to be false, to disprove

reiterate

v. to say again, to repeat

relegate

v. to banish, to send away

relentless

adj. continuous, unstoppable

relinquish

v. to release or let go of, to surrender, to stop doing