- receptive: open to arguments, ideas, or change
- recluse: hermit, loner
- recount: narrate or tell
- rectify: set right, correct
- redundant: superfluous, repetitious, excessive
- refute: disprove
- relegate: assign to a lower position
- relevant: having importance; pertinent
- relinquish: reluctantly give up, yield
- relish: savor, enjoy