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- retort
- quick, sharp reply. Even when it was advisable for her to keep her mouth shut, she was always ready with a retort.
- retiring
- modest; shy. Given Susan's retiring personality, no one expected her to take up public speaking; surprisingly enough, she became a star of the school debate team.
- retinue
- following; attendants. The queen's retinue followed hr down the aisle.
- reticent
- reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence. Fearing his competitors might get advance word about his plans from talkative staff members, Hughes preferred reticent employees to loquacious ones.
- retentive
- holding; having a good memory. The pupil did not need to spend much time in study as he had a retentive mind.
- retaliation
- repayment in kind (usually for bad treatment). Because everyone knew the Princeton band had stolen Brown's mascot, the whole Princeton student body expected some sort of retaliation from Brown.
- retain
- keep; employ. Fighting to retain his seat in Congress, Senator Foghorn retained a new manager to head his reelection campaign.
- resuscitate
- revive. The lifeguard tried to resuscitate the drowned chid by applying articial respiration.
- resurge
- rise again; flow to and fro. It was starling to see the spirit of nationalism resurge as the Soviet Union disintegrated into a loose federation of ethnic and national groups.
- resumption
- taking up again; recommencement. During the summer beak, Don had not realized how much he missed university life; at the resumption of classes, however, he felt marked excitement and pleasure.
- restraint
- moderation or self-control; controlling force; restriction. Show some restraint, young lady! three desserts is quite enough!
- restive
- restlessly impatient; obstinately resisting control. Waiting impatiently in line to see Santa Claus, even the best-behaved children gwo restive and start to fidget.
- restitution
- reparation; indemnification. He offered to make restitution for the window broken by his son.
- responsiveness
- state of reacting readily to appeals, orders. The audience cheered and applauded, delighting the performers by its responsiveness.
- resplendent
- dazzling; florious; brilliant. While all the adults were commenting how glorious the emperor looked in his resplendent new clothes, one little boy was heard to say, "but he's naked"
- respite
- interval of relief; time for rest; delay in punishment. For David, the two weeks vacationing in New Zealand were a delightful respite from the pressures of his job.
- respiration
- breathing; exhalation. The doctor found that the patient's years of smoking had adversely affected both his lung capacity and his rate of respiration.
- resonant
- echoing; resounding; deep and full in sound. The deep, resonant voice of the actor James Earl Jones makes him particularly effective when he appears on stage.
- resolve
- decide; settle; solve. HOlmes resolved to travel to Bohemia to resolve the dispute between Irene Adler and the King
- resolution
- determination. Nothing could shake his resolution to succeed despite all difficulties
- resilient
- lastic; having the power of springing back. Highly resilient, steel makes excellent bedsprings
- resignation
- patient submissiveness; statement that one is quitting a job. If Bob Cratchit had not accepted Scrooge's bullying with timid resignation, he might have gotten up the nerve to hand in his resignation
- residue
- remainder; balance. In his will, he requested that after payment of debts, taxes, and funeral expenses, the residue be given to his wife.
- reserve
- self-control; formal but distant manner. Although some girls were attracted by Mark's reserve, Judy was put off by it, for she felt his aloofness indicated a lack of openness.
- resentment
- indignation; bitterness; displeasure. Not wanting to appear a sore loser, Bill tried to hide his resentment of Barry's success.
- rescind
- cancel. Because of the public outcrygaainst the new taxes, the senator proposed a bill to rescind the unpopular financial measure.
- requite
- repay; revenge. The wtretch requited his benefactors by betraying them.
- requisite
- necessary requirement. Many collges state that a udent must offer three years of a language as a requisite for admission.
- requiem
- mass for the dead; dirge. They played Mozart's Requiem at the funeral
- reputed
- supposed. He is the reputed father of the child
- repulsion
- distaste; act of driving back. Hating bloodshed, she viewed war with repulsion. Even defensive battles distressed her, for the repulsion of enemy forces is never accomplished bloodlessly.
- repugnance
- loathing, hatred. She looked at the snake with repugnace
- repudiate
- disoqn; disavow. On separating from Tony, Tina announced that sh would repudiate all debts incurred by her soon-to-be ex husband.
- reprove
- censure; rebuke, yell, shout. Though Aunt Bea at times would reprove Opie for inattention in church, she believed he wats at heart a God-fearing lad
- reprobation
- severe disapproval. The students showed their reprobation of his act by refusing to talk with him.
- reproach
- express disapproval or disappointment. He never could do anything wrong without imagining how the look on his mother's face would reproach him afterwards.
- reprise
- musical repetition; repeat performance; recurrent action. We enjoyed the soprano's solo in Act 1 so much that we were delighted by its reprise in the finale.
- reprisal
- retaliation. I am confident that we are ready for any reprisals the enmy may undertake.
- reprimand
- reprove severly; rebuke. Every time Ermengarde made a mistake in class, she was afraid that Miss Minchin would reprimand her and tell her father how badly she was doing in school.
- reprieve
- temporary stay. During the twenty-four-hour reprieve, the lawyers sought to make the stay of execution permanent.
- repress
- restrain; crush; oppress. Anne's parents tried to curb her impetuousity without repressing her boundless high spirits.