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| quixotic | chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree | |
| radix | that from or on which something is developed | |
| raillery | good-humored satire | |
| ramify | to divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions | |
| ramose | branch-like | |
| rampant | growing, climbing or running without restraint | |
| rancor | malice | |
| rankle | to produce irritation or festering | |
| rapacious | disposed to seize by violent or by unlawful or greedy methods | |
| rapine | the act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war | |
| rapt | enraptured | |
| raucous | harsh | |
| rebuff | a peremptory or unexpected rejection of an advance | |
| recidivist | a confirmed criminal | |
| reciprocity | equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed | |
| reck | to have a care or thought for | |
| reconnoiter | to make a preliminary examination of (for the purpose of military, surveying, or geological purposes) | |
| recourse | to resort to a person or thing for help or protection | |
| recreant | a cowardly or faithless person | |
| recrudescent | becoming raw or sore | |
| redolent | smelling sweet and agreeable | |
| redoubtable | formidable | |
| refract | to bend or turn from a direct course | |
| refractory | not amenable to control | |
| refringent | having the power to refract | |
| regale | to give unusual pleasure | |
| regality | royalty | |
| regicide | the killing of a king or sovereign | |
| relegate | to send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination | |
| remiss | negligent | |
| remonstrate | to present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong | |
| remonstrance | reproof | |
| remunerate | to pay or pay for | |
| renumeration | compensation | |
| reparation | the act of making amends, as for an injury, loss, or wrong | |
| repartee | a ready, witty, or apt reply | |
| repine | to indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding | |
| reprehend | to find fault with | |
| reprisal | any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy | |
| repulse | the act of driving back (as an enemy) | |
| requital | adequate return for good or ill | |
| respite | an interval or rest | |
| resplendent | very bright | |
| reticent | habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance | |
| retinue | the body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance | |
| retouch | to modify the details of | |
| retrench | to cut down or reduce in extent or quantity | |
| retrograde | to cause to deteriorate or move backward | |
| reversion | a return to or toward some former state or condition | |
| revisal | revision | |
| rhapsody | rapt or rapturous utterance | |
| ribald | indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity | |
| risible | capable of exciting laughter | |
| rivulet | a small stream or brook | |
| rote | repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention | |
| rotund | round from fullness or plumpness | |
| rue | to regret extremely | |
| ruminate | to chew over again | |
| ruth | sorrow for another's misery |
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