SAT* #5 Definition MATCH Exercise

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18 vocabulary words from The Most Important SAT* #5 puzzles.
    Alphabetical list of 18 words:
    ramification, rapacious, recalcitrant, recant,
    recrimination, redolent, redundant, refutable,
    relegate, relinquish, remonstrate, reparation,
    replenish, reprehensible, requisite, resolute,
    rigorous, rudimentary
  • 1. _____ redolent

  • 2. _____ requisite

  • 3. _____ recant

  • 4. _____ rudimentary

  • 5. _____ remonstrate

  • 6. _____ reparation

  • 7. _____ recalcitrant

  • 8. _____ relinquish

  • 9. _____ refutable

  • 10. _____ reprehensible

  • 11. _____ redundant

  • 12. _____ relegate

  • 13. _____ rapacious

  • 14. _____ resolute

  • 15. _____ rigorous

  • 16. _____ ramification

  • 17. _____ recrimination

  • 18. _____ replenish
Match the 18 definitions below to the vocabulary words on the left.
  • a. -- characterized by unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas; wordy

  • b. -- pertaining to the beginning or first principles; undeveloped; primitive

  • c. -- to make full or complete again; to supply with fresh fuel

  • d. -- to renounce or surrender (position, right, claim); to give up, put aside

  • e. -- firmly set in purpose or opinion; determined; earnest

  • f. -- resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; unruly

  • g. -- to send or consign to an inferior position, place or condition

  • h. -- to withdraw or disavow (a statement, opinion etc.), esp. formally; retract

  • i. -- characterized by rigid severity; precise

  • j. -- a related or derived development; consequence; implication

  • k. -- the making of amends for wrong or injury done

  • l. -- required; necessary

  • m. -- to reason or plead in protest, objection or complaint

  • n. -- given to plundering; inordinately greedy

  • o. -- a countercharge against an accuser

  • p. -- proving to be false or erroneous (opinion or charge)

  • Q. -- deserving rebuke or censure; blameworthy

  • r. -- having a pleasant odor; fragrant; odorous

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