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rabid: adj. Affected with rabies or hydrophobia.
racy: adj. Exciting or exhilarating to the mind.
radiance: n. Brilliant or sparkling luster.
radiate: v. To extend in all directions, as from a source or focus.
radical: n. One who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures.
radix: n. That from or on which something is developed.
raillery: n. Good-humored satire.
ramify: v. To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions.
ramose: adj. Branch-like.
rampant: adj. Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint.
rampart: n. A bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry.
rancor: n. Malice.
rankle: v. To produce irritation or festering.
rapacious: adj. Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
rapid: adj. Having great speed.
rapine: n. The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war.
rapt: adj. Enraptured.
raptorial: adj. Seizing and devouring living prey.
ration: v. To provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food.
rationalism: n. The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority.
raucous: adj. Harsh.
ravage: v. To lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods.
ravenous: adj. Furiously voracious or hungry.
ravine: n. A deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water.
reaction: n. Tendency towards a former, or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution, or inflation.
reactionary: adj. Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or favoring reaction.
readily: adv. Without objection or reluctance.
readjust: v. To put in order after disarrangement.
ready: adj. In a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion.
realism: n. The principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist.
rearrange: v. To arrange again or in a different order.
reassure: v. To give new confidence.
rebellious: adj. Insubordinate.
rebuff: n. A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches.
rebuild: v. To build again or anew.
rebut: v. To oppose by argument or a sufficient answer.
recant: v. To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained).
recapitulate: v. To repeat again the principal points of.
recapture: v. To capture again.
recede: v. To move back or away.
receivable: adj. Capable of being or fit to be received - often money.
receptive: adj. Having the capacity, quality, or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions.
recessive: adj. Having a tendency to go back.
recidivist: n. A confirmed criminal.
reciprocal: adj. Mutually interchangeable or convertible.
reciprocate: v. To give and take mutually.
reciprocity: n. Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed.
recitation: n. The act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory.
reck: v. To have a care or thought for.
reckless: adj. Foolishly headless of danger.
reclaim: v. To demand or to obtain the return or restoration of.
recline: v. To cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position.
recluse: n. One who lives in retirement or seclusion.
reclusory: n. A hermitage.
recognizance: n. An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act.
recognize: v. To recall the identity of (a person or thing).
recoil: v. To start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread.
recollect: v. To recall the knowledge of.
reconcilable: adj. Capable of being adjusted or harmonized.
reconnoiter: v. To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geological purposes.
reconsider: v. To review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action.
reconstruct: v. To rebuild.
recourse: n. Resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble.
recover: v. To regain.
recreant: n. A cowardly or faithless person.
recreate: v. To refresh after labor.
recrudescence: n. The state of becoming raw or sore again.
recrudescent: adj. Becoming raw or sore again.
recruit: v. To enlist men for military or naval service.
rectify: v. To correct.
rectitude: n. The quality of being upright in principles and conduct.
recuperate: v. To recover.
recur: v. To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
recure: v. To cure again.
recurrent: adj. Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals.
redemption: n. The recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt.
redolence: n. Smelling sweet and agreeable.
redolent: adj. Smelling sweet and agreeable.
redoubtable: adj. Formidable.
redound: n. Rebound.
redress: v. To set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer.
reducible: adj. That may be reduced.
redundance: n. Excess.
redundant: adj. Constituting an excess.
reestablish: v. To restore.
refer: v. To direct or send for information or other purpose.
referable: adj. Ascribable.
referee: n. An umpire.
referrer: n. One who refers.
refinery: n. A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
reflectible: adj. Capable of being turned back.
reflection: n. The throwing off or back of light, heat, sound, or any form of energy that travels in waves.
reflector: n. A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular direction.
reflexible: adj. Capable of being reflected.
reform: n. Change for the better.
reformer: n. One who carries out a reform.
refract: v. To bend or turn from a direct course.
refractory: adj. Not amenable to control.
refragable: adj. Capable of being refuted.
refringency: n. Power to refract.
refringent: adj. Having the power to refract.
refusal: n. Denial of what is asked.
refute: v. To prove to be wrong.
regale: v. To give unusual pleasure.
regalia: n. pl. The emblems of royalty.
regality: n. Royalty.
regenerate: v. To reproduce.
regent: n. One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler.
regicide: n. The killing of a king or sovereign.
regime: n. Particular conduct or administration of affairs.
regimen: n. A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits.
regiment: n. A body of soldiers.
regnant: adj. Exercising royal authority in one's own right.
regress: v. To return to a former place or condition.
regretful: adj. Feeling, expressive of, or full of regret.
rehabilitate: v. To restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege.
reign: v. To hold and exercise sovereign power.
reimburse: v. To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended.
rein: n. A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal.
reinstate: v. To restore to a former state, station, or authority.
reiterate: v. To say or do again and again.
rejoin: v. To reunite after separation.
rejuvenate: v. To restore to youth.
rejuvenescence: n. A renewal of youth.
relapse: v. To suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery.
relegate: v. To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination.
relent: v. To yield.
relevant: adj. Bearing upon the matter in hand.
reliance: n. Dependence.
reliant: adj. Having confidence.
relinquish: v. To give up using or having.
reliquary: n. A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
relish: v. To like the taste or savor of.
reluctance: n. Unwillingness.
reluctant: adj. Unwilling.
remembrance: n. Recollection.
reminiscence: n. The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience.
reminiscent: adj. Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest.
remiss: adj. Negligent.
remission: n. Temporary diminution of a disease.
remodel: v. Reconstruct.
remonstrance: n. Reproof.
remonstrant: adj. Having the character of a reproof.
remonstrate: v. To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong.
remunerate: v. To pay or pay for.
remuneration: n. Compensation.
Renaissance: n. The revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time.
rendezvous: n. A prearranged place of meeting.
rendition: n. Interpretation.
renovate: v. To restore after deterioration, as a building.
renunciation: n. An explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege.
reorganize: v. To change to a more satisfactory form of organization.
reparable: adj. Capable of repair.
reparation: n. The act of making amends, as for an injury, loss, or wrong.
repartee: n. A ready, witty, or apt reply.
repeal: v. To render of no further effect.
repel: v. To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally.
repellent: adj. Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally.
repentance: n. Sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong.
repertory: n. A place where things are stored or gathered together.
repetition: n. The act of repeating.
repine: v. To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding.
replenish: v. To fill again, as something that has been emptied.
replete: adj. Full to the uttermost.
replica: n. A duplicate executed by the artist himself, and regarded, equally with the first, as an original.
repository: n. A place in which goods are stored.
reprehend: v. To find fault with.
reprehensible: adj. Censurable.
reprehension: n. Expression of blame.
repress: v. To keep under restraint or control.
repressible: adj. Able to be kept under restraint or control.
reprieve: v. To grant a respite from punishment to.
reprimand: v. To chide or rebuke for a fault.
reprisal: n. Any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy.
reprobate: n. One abandoned to depravity and sin.
reproduce: v. To make a copy of.
reproduction: n. The process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind.
reproof: n. An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured.
repudiate: v. To refuse to have anything to do with.
repugnance: n. Thorough dislike.
repugnant: adj. Offensive to taste and feeling.
repulse: n. The act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy.
repulsive: adj. Grossly offensive.
repute: v. To hold in general opinion.
requiem: n. A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
requisite: adj. Necessary.
requital: n. Adequate return for good or ill.
requite: v. To repay either good or evil to, as to a person.
rescind: v. To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
reseat: v. To place in position of office again.
resemblance: n. Similarity in quality or form.
resent: v. To be indignant at, as an injury or insult.
reservoir: n. A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept.
residue: n. A remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated.
resilience: n. The power of springing back to a former position
resilient: adj. Having the quality of springing back to a former position.
resistance: n. The exertion of opposite effort or effect.
resistant: adj. Offering or tending to produce resistance.
resistive: adj. Having or exercising the power of resistance.
resistless: adj. Powerless.
resonance: n. The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
resonance: adj. Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
resonate: v. To have or produce resonance.
resource: n. That which is restored to, relied upon, or made available for aid or support.
respite: n. Interval of rest.
resplendent: adj. Very bright.
respondent: adj. Answering.
restitution: n. Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs.
resumption: n. The act of taking back, or taking again.
resurgent: adj. Surging back or again.
resurrection: n. A return from death to life
resuscitate: v. To restore from apparent death.
retaliate: v. To repay evil with a similar evil.
retch: v. To make an effort to vomit.
retention: n. The keeping of a thing within one's power or possession.
reticence: n. The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
reticent: adj. Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
retinue: n. The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance.
retort: n. A retaliatory speech.
retouch: v. To modify the details of.
retrace: v. To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking.
retract: v. To recall or take back (something that one has said).
retrench: v. To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity.
retrieve: v. To recover something by searching.
retroactive: adj. Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities.
retrograde: v. To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
retrogression: n. A going or moving backward or in a reverse direction.
retrospect: n. A view or contemplation of something past.
retrospective: adj. Looking back on the past.
reunite: v. To unite or join again, as after separation.
revelation: n. A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknown.
revere: v. To regard with worshipful veneration.
reverent: adj. Humble.
reversion: n. A return to or toward some former state or condition.
revert: v. To return, or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like.
revile: v. To heap approach or abuse upon.
revisal: n. Revision.
revise: v. To examine for the correction of errors, or for the purpose of making changes.
revocation: n. Repeal.
revoke: v. To rescind.
rhapsody: n. Rapt or rapturous utterance.
rhetoric: n. The art of discourse.
rhetorician: n. A showy writer or speaker.
ribald: adj. Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity.
riddance: n. The act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable.
ridicule: n. Looks or acts expressing amused contempt.
ridiculous: adj. Laughable and contemptible.
rife: adj. Abundant.
righteousness: n. Rectitude.
rightful: adj. Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage.
rigmarole: n. Nonsense.
rigor: n. Inflexibility.
rigorous: adj. Uncompromising.
ripplet: n. A small ripple, as of water.
risible: adj. capable of exciting laughter.
rivulet: n. A small stream or brook.
robust: adj. Characterized by great strength or power of endurance.
rondo: n. A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times.
rookery: n. A place where crows congregate to breed.
rotary: adj. Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus.
rotate: v. To cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel.
rote: n. Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention.
rotund: adj. Round from fullness or plumpness.
rudimentary: adj. Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development.
rue: v. To regret extremely.
ruffian: adj. A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow.
ruminant: adj. Chewing the cud.
ruminate: v. To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated.
rupture: v. To separate the parts of by violence.
rustic: adj. Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
ruth: n. Sorrow for another's misery.