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rancor.nouns,.plural.rancor
rancorousness.nouns,.plural.rancorousnesses
bitter, long lasting resentment;
deep seated ill will
rancorously.adverb
rancorous.adjective
synonym.enmity
rapport.noun,.plural.rapports
a relationship based on commonality,
evidenced by harmony, conformity,
accord
or affinity where each cares enough
to both understand and respect the other's heart (expressions, personality,
hopes, dreams, etc.) in such a way that joy
in a relationship
escalates.(*);
rapport is a friendly agreement and understanding between people; if two
people or groups have a rapport, they have a good relationship in which
they are able to understand each other's ideas or feelings very well; example
relevant.adjective
having significant and demonstrable bearing on
the matter at hand; affording evidence tending to prove or disprove the
matter at issue or under discussion; having social relevance
relevantly.adverb
relevance.nouns,.plural.relevances
relavancy.noun,.plural.relavancies
synonyms.germane,
pertinent,
apposite,
applicable,
apropos
germane may
additionally imply a fitness for or appropriateness
to the situation or occasion
apposite suggests
a felicitous.relevance
applicable suggests
the fitness of bringing a general rule or principle to bear upon a particular
case
apropos suggests
being both relevant and opportune (the quip was apropos)
redeem,
redeemed,
redeeming,
redeems.transitive
verbs
to turn in something and receive something in
exchange (turned in the coupons for a credit on products; turned her anger
into appreciation by redirecting energy using higher thoughts); to buy
back; to set free; to deliver from sin
and its penalties
redeemable.adjective
redemption.noun,.plural.redemptions
the act of redeeming
or the condition
of having been redeemed (salvation
from sin through the
sacrifice
of Emmanuel, to save
from a state
of sinfulness);
to recover ownership of by paying a specified sum; recovery of something
pawned or mortgaged; to turn in coupons, for example and receive something
in exchange; to convert
into cash (redeem stocks and/or bonds);
the
redemption of a human being); the payment of an obligation,
as a government's payment of the value of its bonds; deliverance upon payment;
rescue;
to make up for (the low price of the clothes dryer redeems its lack of
special features); to restore the honor, worth or reputation of (you botched
the last job we gave you to do but can redeem yourself on this one)
redemptional or redemptive
or redemptory.adjective
serving to redeem
resent,
resented,
resenting,
resents.transitive
verbs
to feel indignantly.aggrieved
at; Jonah's example:.Jonah
4:1; the woman Michal's example:.2Samuel
6:14-23)
resentful.adjective
full
of resentment; inclined to
resent;
caused or marked
by resentment; resentment is perpetual.hatred
resentfully.adverb
resentfulness.noun.(normally
used without being pluralized)
resentment.noun,.plural.resentments
a feeling of indignant.displeasure
or persistent.malice
at something regarded
as an offense;
(she felt resentment toward that
other woman each time she was around); a wrong, insult
or injury;
resentment, the
killer of present minded awareness, refers to ill
will and smoldering anger generated by a sense of grievance
(the divorce can be traced to the personal resentment of issues they both
faced at work); unforgiveness; ill will towards another for hurt
feelings; resentment refers to ill will and smoldering anger
generated by a sense of grievance
rigmarole.or.rigamarole.noun.(normally
used without being pluralized)
a complicated,
petty
set of procedures; a complex
and or ritualistic procedure
such as was the ancient Mosaic
Law
rupture, ruptured,
rupturing,
ruptures.verbs
transitive verb use-to
part by violence; break; burst
realm.noun,.plural.realms
a realm is a kingdom,
a
territory,
an
area, a scope
or
sphere; you can use realm to
refer to any area of activity, concern, interest or thought (the realm
of the poor; the realm of politics; the realm of sports; the realm
of Christ); a realm is a social.order,
a rank,
a domain.(within
the realm of possibility);
if you say that something is
not beyond the realms of possibility,
you mean that it is possible (a chance of snow in the early fall season
is not beyond the realms of possibility)
repulse, repulsed,
repulsing,
repulses.transitive
verbs
to repel
by discourtesy, coldness or denial; to cause repulsion in; to repel, push
away from
Physics:
in physics,
the
mutual action by which bodies,
particles,
etc. tend to repel
each other; opposed to attraction
repulse.noun,.plural.repulses
repulser.noun,.plural.repulsers
repulsion.noun,.plural.repulsions
the act of repulsing
or the condition of being repulsed; extreme aversion
Physics:.the
tendency.of
particles
or bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity
to separate
repulsive.adjective
causing repugnance.or.aversion;
disgusting;
offensive;
tending
to repel
or drive off
Physics:.opposing
in direction (a repulsive force)
repulsively.adverb
repulsiveness.noun,.plural.repulsivenesses
rote.noun,.plural.rotes
the use of memory usually with little intelligence
and or input from questioning students, with emphasis not on what the student
may want to know because he is presently curious about something, but mostly
on following a curriculum some
educational official believes is best for all students, a big
mistake (schools fail to teach students how to think and how to imagine
and use one's mind to create, but rather to repeat and remember facts which
many students find stultifying
because of the rote method of teaching); routine or repetition carried
out mechanically by a student or unthinkingly, produces zombies
rash,
rasher,
rashest.adjectives
if someone is rash or does rash things, they act
without thinking carefully first and therefore
make mistakes or behave foolishly;
marked by or proceeding from undue haste
and/or lack of deliberation
or
caution;
reckless;
thoughtless; done without reflection;
hasty; precipitate;
impetuous;
harebrained
rashly.adverb
rashness.noun.(words
ending in 'ess'
are usually without pluralization - adding an 'es'
making '...esses'
is clumsy)
rash.noun,.plural.rashes
a skin eruption; an outbreak of many instances
within a brief period (a rash of good luck)
repetition.noun,.plural.repetitions
the act or process or an instance of repeating
or being repeated (people often do various practices to aid in rising spiritually,
but are they necessary?.Galatians
5:4)
repetitional.adjective
repetitious.adjective
characterized
or marked by repetition;
especially; tediously repeating
repetitiousness.noun.(normally
used without being pluralized)
repetitiously.adverb
repetitive.adjective
given to or characterized
by repetition
repetitively.adverb
repetitiveness.noun.(normally
used without being pluralized)
requisite.adjective-and.noun
essential,
necessary;
required;
needful; indispensable
requisitely.adverb
requisiteness.noun.(normally
used without being pluralized)
compare-prerequisite
revelry.noun,.plural.revelries
boisterous.merrymaking
revelrous.adjective
revel, reveled
or revelled, reveling
or revelling, revelings,
revels.intransitive
verbs
wild parties, to take intense pleasure or satisfaction;
carouse;
a nocturnal and riotous and annoying.procession
of half drunken and frolicsome persons who after supper parade through
the streets with fanfare, torches
and music in self-honour and sing and play before houses of male and female
friends; used generally of feasts and drinking parties that are protracted
till late at night and indulge
in revelry
rational.adjective
based in or derived
from reasoning; able to reason;
showing reason, not foolish or silly; of sound
mind; sane;
consistent
with or based on reason; logical.(rational
behavior); in mathematics, capable
of being expressed as a quotient
of integers
rationalness.noun
rationally.adverb
rationalism.noun
reliance on reason as the best guide for belief
and action
Philosophy:.in
philosophy,
the imprisoning (because
lots happens that can't be explained by rational reasoning) theory
that the exercise of reason, rather than the acceptance of empiricism,
authority or spiritual revelation, provides the only valid
basis for action or belief and that reason is the prime
source of knowledge and of spiritual truth
rationalistically.adverb
rationalistic.adjective
rationalist.noun,.plural.rationalists
rationality.noun,.plural.rationalities
the quality or condition of being rational;
a rational belief or practice
rational number.noun,.plural.rational
numbers
a number capable
of being expressed
as an integer or a quotient
of integers, excluding zero as a denominator
relinquish,
relinquished,
relinquishing,
relinquishes.transitive
verbs
if you relinquish something such as power or control,
you give it up; abandon;
to put aside or desist
from something practiced, professed or intended; to let go; surrender;
to cease
holding physically; release (relinquish a grip)
relinquisher, relinquishment.nouns
rehash,
rehashed,
rehashing,
rehashes.transitive
verbs
to bring forth again in another form without significant
alteration (rehashing old ideas); to discuss again
rehash.noun
the act or result of rehashing (a rehash of an
old plot)
rubber stamp.noun,.plural.rubber
stamps
an individual or body
that gives perfunctory approval
or endorsement of a policy
without assessing its merit;
a perfunctory approval or endorsement;
also, a device made of a piece
of rubber affixed to a handle and
bearing raised characters used to make ink impressions, as of names or
dates, etc.; a rubber stamp is a small device with usually,
a name, date or symbol on it, that
you press it on to an ink pad and then on to a document.in
order to show that the document has been received and dealt
with; in Post Offices, virtually
every document that's passed across the counter is stamped with a rubber
stamp
rubber-stamp, rubber-stamped,
rubber-stamping,
rubber-stamps.transitive
verbs
to
endorse
or approve without question or deliberation;
routine.authorization
of an action without questions
to
mark with the imprint of a rubber stamp;
reputed.adjective
generally supposed to be such; supposed
reputedly.adverb
repute,
reputed,
reputing,
reputes.transitive
verbs
to ascribe
a particular.fact
or characteristic.to;
to consider; suppose
repute.noun,.plural.reputes
reputation; a good
reputation
reputation.noun,.plural.reputations
the general estimation
in which an individual is held by others (he has a reputation for being
honest); a specific characteristic
or trait ascribed to a person
or thing (a reputation for courtesy)
reputable.adjective
having
a good reputation; honorable
reputably.adverb
reputability.noun,.plural.reputabilities
recalcitrant.adjective
marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance
of guidance (some people just won't
listen to advice helpful for them); unruly
recalcitrant.noun,.plural.recalcitrants
a recalcitrant person
recalcitrance.noun,.plural.recalcitrances
recalcitrancy.noun,.plural.recalcitrancies
routine.noun,.plural.routines
a prescribed,
detailed course of action to be followed regularly;
a standard procedure; the regular
method
Computers:.a
set of programming instructions designed to perform a specific,
limited task
routine.adjective
in accord
with established procedure
(a routine manner of vacuuming the house); habitual;
regular (made her routine trip to the store); ordinary.(a
routine day)
routinely.adverb
routinism.noun,.plural.routinisms
routinist.noun,.plural.routinists
racy, racier,
raciest.adjectives
risqué;
ribald;
having a distinctive and characteristic.quality
or taste; racy writing or behavior
is lively,
amusing,
exciting,
slightly.shocking,
entertaining
and often about sex (a racy novel);
full of zest
or vigor;
having a strongly marked
quality; piquant or pungent
(east Indian food often has a racy flavor); vigorous
racily.adverb
raciness.noun.(words
ending in 'ess'
are usually without pluralization - adding an 'es'
making '...esses'
is clumsy)
recto.noun,.plural.rectos
a right-hand page of a book or the front side
of a leaf, on the other side of the verso
rugged.adjective
having a rough,
irregular
surface; rough;
having strong features marked with furrows or wrinkles (the rugged face
of the old sailor); having a sturdy build or strong constitution (a rugged
trapper who spent months in the wilderness); tempestuous;
stormy (the rugged weather of the North Atlantic); demanding great effort,
ability or endurance (rugged conditions of mountain cllimbing life)
ruggedly.adverb
ruggedness.adverb
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