Words Starting With "R"

1. Rapporteur – a recorder of meeting
2. Ratcheting – move by degrees in one direction
3. Raucous – wild, crazy and boisterous
4. Ravish – to transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy; to seize or carry away by violence
5. Rebuff – rejection of friendly offer; they rebuffed her request for help
6. Rebuttal – the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument
7. Recant (V) – take back; admit an error
8. Rectitude – honesty
9. Reel – walk as if unable to control one’s movement
10. Reel (V) – walk as if unable to control one’s movement
11. Refurbishing – making brighter and prettier
12. Relinquish (V) – give up
13. Reparations (N) - Compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury
14. Reprove (V) – to accuse; reprehend; express disapproval
15. Repugnant – offensive to the mind
16. Repulsion – a feeling of violent offence or disgust; repugnance; aversion;
17. Requiem – dirge, lament, threnody
18. Rescinded (V) – cancelled officially; annulled; countermanded; revoked
19. Resplendent – decorated elegantly and brightly; shinning with brilliance
20. Restive (A) - unable to stay still, or unwilling to be controlled, especially because you feel bored or not satisfied
21. Reticence (N) - The trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary; taciturnity; reserve
22. Revelry (N) – a noisy drinking party; merrymaking
23. Ribald (A) – humorously vulgar; bawdy; base; filthy; obscene; “a ribald person”
24. Rigmarole – a set of confused or meaningless statements; rambling; episodic; disconnected
25. Rigmarole (A) – episodic; rambling; disconnected speech; a long and complicated process, especially speech
26. Ruffian – an uncultured, aggressive, rude, noise, troublemaker
27. Ruminate – to think about something repeatedly