Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/69

ranger

• ranger, Audubon Society, Gurkhas, National Wildlife Service, SS, Sierra Club, Special Forces, Waffen-SS, air warden, arboriculturist, attendant, caretaker, castellan, conservationist, conservator, curator, custodian, deliverer, elite corps, elite troops, forest ranger, forester, game warden, gamekeeper, governor, guardian, guardian angel, guardsmen, janitor, keeper, lifeguard, lifesaver, logger, lumberjack, lumberman, marines, next friend, paratroops, preservationist, preserver, prochein ami, rescuer, safekeeper, saver, savior, shepherd, shock troops, silviculturist, special troops, steward, storm troops, taxidermist, timberman, tree farmer, warden, warder, wood chopper, woodcraftsman, woodcutter, woodman, woodsman

rani

• rani, Kaiserin, begum, crown princess, czarina, empress, grand duchess, infanta, kumari, kunwari, maharani, malikzadi, princess, princesse, queen, queen consort, queen regent, queen regnant, raj-kumari, shahzadi, sovereign princess, sovereign queen

rank and file

• rank and file, armed force, armed service, army, array, bourgeoisie, career soldiers, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, fighting machine, forces, ground forces, ground troops, host, laborers, legions, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, majority, members, middle class, middle orders, military establishment, occupation force, ordinary people, paratroops, peasantry, people, plain folks, plain people, plebeians, plebes, populace, proletariat, ranks, regular army, regulars, shopkeepers, ski troops, small tradesmen, soldiery, standing army, storm troops, the line, the lower cut, the military, the other half, the third estate, third estate, toilers, toiling class, troops, upper middle class, vulgus, working class, working people

rank

• rank, English horn, IC analysis, Indian file, KP, abject, abominable, absolute, abundant, adjust, align, alphabetize, analyze, ancestry, antecede, appositive, appraise, appreciate, aristocracy, aristocraticalness, army, army group, arrange, arrant, array, articulation, ascendancy, assess, assort, atrocious, attribute, attributive, authority, awful, bad, bad-smelling, bank, barfy, base, bassoon, battalion, battery, battle group, be distinguished, be regarded, be thought of, bearings, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, birth, black, blamable, blameworthy, blatant, block flute, blood, blown, blue, blue blood, bolt, bombard, bourdon, bracket, brackish, branch, break down, brigade, broad, broken, brutal, bulk, bumpy, buzz, cachet, cadre, call, capacity, capital, case, caste, catalog, categorize, category, catena, catenation, cello, chain, chain reaction, chaining, character, cheesy, choppy, circumstance, circumstances, clan, claribel, clarinet, clarion, class, classical, classify, cloying, coarse, coarse-grained, codify, cohort, collate, column, combat command, combat team, come before, come first, company, complement, complete, concatenation, concert flute, condition, connection, consecution, consequence, conspicuous, construction modifier, consummate, contemptible, continuity, continuum, cool off, cornet, cornopean, corps, corrugated, corrupt, count, course, crappy, crass, criminal, cromorna, cross-grained, crummy, cutting, cycle, cymbel, damnable, dank, dark, debased, decided, deep structure, definitive, degraded, degree, dense, deplorable, deploy, depraved, descent, despicable, detachment, detail, detestable, diapason, digest, dignity, dire, direct object, dirty, disagreeable, disgraceful, disgusting, dispose, distinction, divide, division, downright, dreadful, drone, dulciana, earthy, echelon, egregious, eminence, employees, endless belt, endless round, enlarge, enormous, estate, estimate, evaluate, evil, execrable, exuberant, face, fecal, feculent, fertile, fetid, field army, field train, figure, file, filiation, filler, filthy, fix, flagitious, flagrant, flourishing, flute stop, flyblown, flying column, footing, form, form an estimate, form-function unit, formation, foul, foundation stop, fourniture, frank, front, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fructuous, fulsome, function, funky, fusty, gamba, gamut, gamy, garrison, gauge, gedeckt, gemshorn, genteelness, gentility, give an appreciation, glaring, gloppy, go ahead of, go before, go in advance, gradate, gradation, grade, graduate, grainy, granulated, grave, graveolent, greatness, grievous, gross, group, grouping, grown, guess, gunky, gutter, harmonic flute, harmonize, hateful, have priority, head, head the table, head up, heading, heavy, heinous, hierarchize, hierarchy, high, high place, high-tasted, homespun, honorable descent, horrible, horrid, horripilant, hum, humid, hybrid stop, icky, ill-smelling, immediate constituent analysis, immodest, impenetrable, importance, improper, indecent, indecorous, index, indirect object, inequal, infamous, influence, influentialness, iniquitous, intolerable, irregular, jam, jolty, jungled, jungly, kick off, kin, kitchen police, knavish, koppel flute, kudos, label, lamentable, larigot, lavish, lay out, lead, lead off, legion, level, levels, line, line up, lineage, linsey-woolsey, list, little, loathsome, location, lot, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, lurid, lush, luxuriant, maggoty, make an estimation, malodorous, mangy, maniple, mark, marshal, match, mawkish, mean, measly, measure, melodia, mephitic, methodize, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, miserable, mixture, modality, mode, modifier, moldy, moment, monotone, monstrous, mucky, musty, mutation stop, nasty, naughty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nazard, nefarious, nexus, nidorous, nobility, noble birth, nobleness, noisome, normalize, noticeable, notorious, noxious, object, obnoxious, oboe, obscene, octave, odious, odorous, off, off color, offensive, olid, order, ordurous, organ stop, organization, organize, out-and-out, outfit, outrageous, outrank, outright, outstanding, overgrown, overripe, overrun, pacify, paltry, pass, peccant, peerage, pendulum, perfect, periodicity, petty, phalanx, phrase structure, piccolo, pickle, pigeonhole, pimply, pitiable, pitiful, pitted, place, platoon, play first fiddle, plein jeu, plenum, plight, pocky, poisonous, poky, poor, pornographic, posaune, position, positive, posse, posture, potholed, powder train, power, power structure, precede, precedence, precious, predicament, predicate, pressure, prestige, principal, priority, prize, productive, profound, profuse, progression, prolific, prominence, pronounced, proper, proportion, puky, pungent, putrid, qualifier, quality, queue, quiet, quint, quintaten, race, rampant, rancid, range, rank first, rank out, ranket, ranks, rate, rating, raunchy, raw, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, reckon, recurrence, reechy, reed stop, reeking, reeky, regiment, register, regrettable, regular, regularize, regulate, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repulsive, reticulation, riddle, riotous, ripply, risque, rohr flute, rotation, rotten, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, round, routine, routinize, row, royalty, rubric, ruffled, run, rutted, rutty, sad, scabby, scale, scandalous, scatological, schlock, screen, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurfy, scurvy, section, seniority, separate, sept, sequence, serial order, series, sesquialtera, set, set up, shabby, shagged, shaggy, shallow structure, shameful, shameless, shattering, shawm, sheer, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sieve, sift, sinful, single file, situation, size, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, slot, slot and filler, sludgy, slushy, small, smellful, smelling, smelly, smutty, soldiers, sordid, sort, sort out, sour, spectrum, sphere, spitz flute, spoiled, sposhy, spot, squad, squadron, squalid, staff, stage, stale, stand, stand first, standardize, standing, star, stark, stark-staring, state, station, stature, status, stenchy, stinking, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, strain, strata, stratum, string, string diapason, string out, string stop, strong, strong-flavored, strong-tasting, structure, stuffy, subdivide, subdivision, subgroup, subject, suborder, subordinate, subordination, succession, sulfurous, superabundant, superiority, superlative, surface structure, surpassing, swath, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, systematize, tabulate, tactical unit, tagmeme, tainted, take precedence, task force, terrible, textured, the veriest, thick, thorough, thoroughgoing, thread, tier, tierce, title, too bad, total, train, tranquilize, tremolo, trombone, troop, trumpet, turned, twelfth, type, unalloyed, unbearable, unclean, unconscionable, uncouth, unda maris, undeniable, underlying structure, undiluted, unequivocal, uneven, unforgivable, unit, unkempt, unlevel, unmentionable, unmitigated, unpardonable, unpolished, unqualified, unrefined, unrelieved, unsmooth, unspeakable, unspoiled, ununiform, unweeded, unworthy, usher in, utter, valuate, value, vibrato, vicious, vile, villainous, viola, voix celeste, vomity, vox angelica, vox humana, vulgar, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, weevily, weight, weightiness, wicked, wimpled, windrow, wing, woeful, word arrangement, word order, workers, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, yecchy, yucky

ranked

• ranked, aligned, arranged, arrayed, assorted, cataloged, categorized, classified, composed, constituted, disposed, filed, fixed, graded, grouped, harmonized, hierarchic, indexed, marshaled, methodized, normalized, on file, ordered, orderly, organized, pigeonholed, placed, pyramidal, ranged, rated, regularized, regulated, routinized, sorted, standardized, stratified, synchronized, systematized, tabular

ranking

• ranking, absolute, all-absorbing, analysis, analyzing, appraisal, appraisement, appraising, appreciation, arch, arrangement, ascendant, assessing, assessment, assortment, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, banner, capital, cardinal, cataloging, categorization, central, champion, chief, classification, clothed with authority, codification, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, controlling, crowning, culling, division, dominant, duly constituted, eminent, empowered, estimate, estimation, evaluating, evaluation, evaluative criticism, ex officio, filing, first, focal, foremost, gauging, governing, gradation, grading, great, grouping, headmost, hegemonic, hegemonistic, highest, imperative, important, indexing, influential, leading, magisterial, main, master, measurement, mighty, momentous, monocratic, official, opinion, overriding, overruling, paramount, pigeonholing, placement, potent, powerful, predominant, preeminent, premier, preponderant, prestigious, prevailing, primal, primary, prime, principal, prominent, puissant, ranging, rating, reckoning, ruling, screening, selection, senior, sifting, sorting, sorting out, sovereign, star, stellar, stratification, subdivision, subordination, substantial, supereminent, superior, supreme, tabulation, taxonomy, topflight, topmost, totalitarian, triage, typology, uppermost, valuation, valuing, view, weighing, weighty

rankle

• rankle, afflict, aggravate, agonize, ail, anger, annoy, arouse, be remembered, bite, bother, break up, bristle, burn, canker, chafe, convulse, corrupt, crucify, crumble, crumble into dust, cut, decay, decompose, disintegrate, distress, embitter, exasperate, excruciate, fall into decay, fall to pieces, fester, fret, gall, gangrene, get to, give pain, gnaw, go bad, go to pieces, grate, grind, gripe, harass, harrow, huff, hurt, incense, inflame, inflict pain, irk, irritate, kill by inches, lacerate, make an impression, martyr, martyrize, matter, miff, mildew, mold, molder, mortify, necrose, nettle, never be forgotten, nip, obsess, pain, peeve, penetrate, pierce, pinch, pique, plague, prick, prolong the agony, provoke, put to torture, putrefy, putresce, rack, rasp, rile, ripen, roil, rot, rub, ruffle, run, set up, sink in, sphacelate, spoil, stab, sting, stir the blood, stir up, suppurate, torment, torture, tweak, twist, upset, vex, weep, work up, wound, wring

rankled

• rankled, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrimonious, bitter, burning, caustic, choleric, embittered, haunted, mindful, nagged, obsessed, plagued, rancorous, remembering, resentful, resenting, sore, splenetic, stewing, unable to forget, virulent

ransack

• ransack, beat, burglarize, burgle, comb, depredate, despoil, examine, explore, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, grub, gut, knock off, knock over, look all over, look everywhere, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, prey on, raid, rake, ravage, raven, ravish, reive, relieve, rifle, rob, rummage, sack, scour, scrutinize, search, search high heaven, shake, shake down, spoil, spoliate, stick up, strip, sweep, toss, turn inside out, turn upside down

ransom

• ransom, buy, deliver, deliverance, delivery, emancipate, extract, extricate, extrication, free, freeing, get back, liberate, liberation, lifesaving, payment, price, recapture, reclaim, reclaiming, reclamation, recoup, recoupment, recover, recovery, recuperate, recuperation, recycle, redeem, redemption, regain, regainment, release, renovate, reoccupation, reoccupy, replevin, replevy, repossess, repossession, rescue, restoration, restore, resume, resumption, retake, retaking, retrieval, retrieve, revindicate, revindication, revival, revive, salvage, salvation, save, saving, set free, take back, trover, win back

rant

• rant, absurdity, act, amphigory, assault, attack, babble, babblement, balderdash, barbarize, batter, bawl out, be angry, be excitable, be insane, be livid, be pissed, bellow, berate, bibble-babble, blabber, blather, blow a gasket, blow up, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, boastfulness, boil, bombast, bombastry, bounce, brag, bravado, browned off, brutalize, bully, bullying, burn, bustle, butcher, carry on, catch fire, catch the infection, chafe, claptrap, come apart, debate, declaim, demagogue, destroy, dote, double-talk, drivel, drool, elocute, excite easily, expatiate, explode, expound, fanfaronade, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, fire up, flame up, flare up, flash up, flatulence, flip, flummery, flurry, fluster, folderol, fret, fudge, fume, fuss, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gasconade, get excited, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, go into hysterics, go on, gobbledygook, grimace, ham, ham it up, hammer, harangue, have a conniption, have a demon, have a tantrum, hector, hectoring, highfalutin, histrionics, hit the ceiling, hocus-pocus, hold forth, hot air, huff, humbug, intimidate, intimidation, jabber, jargon, jaw, lash, lay waste, lecture, lexiphanicism, loot, maul, mouth, mug, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, orate, out-herod Herod, overact, overdramatize, pack of nonsense, palaver, perorate, philippic, pillage, pissed off, pomposity, pontificate, prate, prattle, preach, rabble-rouse, rag, rage, rail, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, ramble, ramp, rampage, rant and rave, rape, rate, rave, read, ream out, recite, rhapsody, rhetoric, rigamarole, rigmarole, riot, roar, rodomontade, roister, rollick, rubbish, ruin, run a temperature, run amok, run mad, sack, savage, seethe, side, simmer, sizzle, skimble-skamble, slang, slaughter, slaver, slobber, smoke, smolder, soapbox, sow chaos, speak, spiel, splutter, spout, sputter, stew, storm, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, swagger, swashbuckle, swashbucklery, take fire, take on, tear, tear around, terrorize, theatrics, throw a fit, throw away, tirade, trash, trumpery, trumpet, tub-thump, turgidity, turn a hair, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, underact, vandalize, vapor, vaporing, violate, vituperate, vociferate, waffling, wander, wreck

ranter

• ranter, Herod, Holy Willie, Joseph Surface, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Pharisee, Tartuffe, affecter, blatherskite, bluff, bluffer, blusterer, braggart, bravo, bucko, bully, bullyboy, canter, canting hypocrite, debater, declaimer, demagogue, dissembler, dissimulator, fanfaron, formalist, haranguer, hector, hectorer, hypocrite, jawsmith, lip server, lip worshiper, panelist, pharisee, pietist, pious fraud, poser, public speaker, rabble-rouser, raver, religionist, religious hypocrite, roisterer, sniveler, snuffler, speaker, speecher, speechifier, speechmaker, spieler, spiritual humbug, spokesman, spokeswoman, spouter, swaggerer, swashbuckler, swasher, talker, tub-thumper, vaporer, whited sepulcher

ranting

• ranting, Dionysiac, abandoned, afebrile delirium, amok, babbling, bacchic, bellowing, berserk, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, brainstorm, bullying, carried away, corybantic, delirious, deliriousness, delirium, demoniac, desperate, distracted, dizzy, ecstatic, enraged, enraptured, feral, ferocious, fierce, fighting mad, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming, furious, giddy, haggard, hectoring, hog-wild, hopping mad, howling, hysterical, in a rage, in a transport, in hysterics, incoherence, incoherent, infuriate, infuriated, intoxicated, lightheaded, like one possessed, lingual delirium, mad, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, noisy, off, orgasmic, orgiastic, possessed, rabid, raging, rambling, ramping, raving, raving mad, ravished, roaring, roaring mad, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, running mad, running wild, savage, stark-raving mad, storming, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, transported, tumultuous, uncontrollable, violent, wandering, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking

rap session

• rap session, airing, analysis, buzz session, canvassing, colloquium, colloquy, conference, consideration, debate, debating, deliberation, dialectic, dialogue, discussion, examination, exchange of views, forum, investigation, joint discussion, logical analysis, logical discussion, open discussion, open forum, palaver, panel discussion, rap, review, seminar, study, symposium, town meeting, treatment, ventilation

rap

• rap, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, admonishment, admonition, adverse criticism, air, airing, analysis, analyze, anathematizing, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bagatelle, bang, bash, baste, bat, batter, bauble, beak, bean, beat, beating, belt, bibelot, biff, bit, blame, blow, bob, bonk, brass farthing, brush, buffet, bump, bunt, burst, bust, button, buzz session, canvass, canvassing, captiousness, carping, causerie, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, censure, cent, chat, chiding, chin, chink, chop, chuck, clap, clash, click, clink, clip, clop, clout, clump, clunk, colloquium, comment upon, condemn, condemnation, confabulation, conference, conk, consider, consideration, controvert, conviction, crack, crash, criticism, criticize, crump, curio, cut, dab, damnation, dash, deal with, death sentence, death warrant, debate, debating, deliberate, deliberate upon, deliberation, denounce, denouncement, denunciate, denunciation, dialectic, dialogue, dig, dint, discourse about, discuss, discussion, doom, drub, drubbing, drumming, dull thud, examination, examine, exception, exchange of views, exchange views, excommunication, farce, farthing, faultfinding, feather, fig, fillip, flail, flak, flap, fleabite, flick, flip, flirt, flop, flump, folderol, forum, fribble, frippery, fusillade, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, go into, graze, guilty verdict, hair, hairsplitting, halfpenny, hammer, handle, hill of beans, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, imputation, investigate, investigation, jab, jest, joint discussion, joke, judgment, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, knock, knock around, lambaste, larrup, lick, logical analysis, logical discussion, maul, minikin, mockery, molehill, nagging, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, obloquy, open discussion, open forum, overcriticalness, pad, pan, panel discussion, pass under review, paste, pat, patter, peck, pelt, peppercorn, pestering, pettifogging, picayune, pick, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pitapat, pitter-patter, plump, plunk, poke, pommel, pop, pound, priggishness, proscription, prose, pulverize, pummel, punch, quibble, quibbling, rap session, reason, reason about, reason the point, red cent, reflection, report, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reproachfulness, reprobate, reproof, review, row of pins, rush, seminar, sentence, shit, sift, skin, slam, slap, slat, sledgehammer, slog, slug, smack, smash, snap, sneeshing, snipe at, sock, sou, spank, splat, straw, stricture, stroke, study, swap, swat, swing, swipe, symposium, take up, taking exception, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, tap, tattoo, thrash, thresh, thresh out, thud, thump, thwack, tick, tickle, tinkle, tip, touch, town meeting, toy, treat, treatment, trichoschistism, trifle, trinket, triviality, tunk, tuppence, two cents, twopence, ventilate, ventilation, verdict of guilty, wallop, whack, wham, whap, whim-wham, whip, whisk, whomp, whop, wig, wipe, yarn, yerk

rapacious

• rapacious, Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, all-engulfing, avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bolting, bottomless, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, devouring, edacious, esurient, extortionate, ferocious, fierce, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, hoggish, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, lupine, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, parasitic, piggish, polyphagic, predacious, predatory, quenchless, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, sharkish, slakeless, sordid, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, usurious, venal, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfing, wolfish

rapacity

• rapacity, acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, avidness, claim, covetousness, crapulence, crapulency, cupidity, demand, edacity, exaction, frenzy of desire, fury of desire, gluttonousness, gluttony, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, gulosity, hoggishness, hyperphagia, incontinence, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperance, intemperateness, itching palm, looting, lust, omnivorousness, overeating, overgreediness, overindulgence, piggishness, pillaging, polyphagia, predacity, rapaciousness, ravenousness, sharkishness, sordidness, swinish gluttony, swinishness, voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness

rape

• rape, abduction, abuse, assault, assault sexually, attack, banditry, barbarize, batter, battering, betray, betrayal, brigandage, brigandism, brutalize, burn, butcher, butchery, capture, carry on, compromise, criminal assault, debauch, debauchment, deceive, defile, defilement, deflorate, defloration, deflower, deflowering, deflowerment, depredate, depredation, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, devirginate, devirgination, direption, dishonor, disorderliness, entice, foraging, foray, force, forcible seizure, freebooting, go on, hammer, kidnapping, killing, lay waste, laying waste, lead astray, loot, looting, lure, marauding, massacre, maul, mislead, mug, obstreperousness, onslaught, outrage, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, possess sexually, priapism, rage, raid, raiding, ramp, rampage, ransacking, rant, rapine, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, rave, ravish, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot, rioting, roar, ruin, sack, sacking, savage, seduce, seducement, seduction, seizure, sexual assault, sexual possession, shame, slaughter, snatching, soil, sow chaos, sowing with salt, spoil, spoiling, spoliate, spoliation, storm, sully, take, take advantage of, taking, tear, tear around, tempt, terrorize, unruliness, vandalize, violate, violation, wreck, wrong

rapid

• rapid, abrupt, agile, alacritous, bluff, bold, breakneck, brisk, ceaseless, chattering, chute, constant, continual, dashing, double-quick, eagle-winged, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, flying, galloping, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, high-speed, hurried, hustling, immediate, impetuous, incessant, instant, instantaneous, light of heel, light-footed, lively, machine gun, mercurial, nimble, nimble-footed, oscillating, perennial, perpetual, plunging, precipitate, precipitous, prompt, pulsating, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rapids, reckless, regular, repeated, riff, riffle, ripple, running, sault, sharp, sheer, shoot, snappy, spanking, speedy, staccato, steady, steep, stuttering, sudden, sustained, swift, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unremitting, unstopped, unvarying, vertical, vibrating, winged

rapidity

• rapidity, air speed, alacrity, bat, briskness, ceaselessness, celerity, chattering, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuity, decisiveness, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, fastness, flight, flit, flurry, gait, ground speed, haste, hurry, immediacy, immediateness, incessancy, instantaneousness, knots, lightning speed, miles per hour, noninterruption, oscillation, pace, perpetuity, precipitation, promptitude, promptness, pulsation, punctuality, punctualness, quick fire, quickness, rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, readiness, regularity, repetition, round pace, rpm, rush, snappiness, speed, speediness, staccato, steadiness, stuttering, summariness, sustainment, swift rate, swiftness, tattoo, unintermission, uninterruption, velocity, vibration

rapidly

• rapidly, always, amain, apace, at all times, at flank speed, at full speed, at once, briskly, ceaselessly, constantly, continually, daily, daily and hourly, day after day, day and night, double-quick, ever, ever and anon, every day, every hour, every moment, expeditiously, fast, flat-out, full tilt, hand over fist, hand over hand, hastily, hell for leather, hell-bent, hell-bent for election, hour after hour, hourly, in a flash, in a jiffy, in a moment, in a trice, in a wink, in double time, in double-quick time, in high, in high gear, in seven-league boots, incessantly, instantaneously, instanter, instantly, lickety-cut, lickety-split, like a shot, like blazes, like greased lightning, like mad, like one possessed, month after month, night and day, on and on, on the double, perennially, perpetually, post, posthaste, promptly, quick, quickly, regularly, right along, right away, snappily, speedily, steadily, sustainedly, swiftly, trippingly, unceasingly, under forced draft, unintermittently, uninterruptedly, unvaryingly, whip and spur, with all haste, with giant strides, with rapid strides, with speed, without cease, without delay, without letup, without stopping, year after year

rapids

• rapids, belch, burst, cascade, cataract, chute, collapse, comedown, crash, debacle, debouchment, declension, declination, defluxion, descending, descension, descent, dissiliency, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drop, dropping, eructation, eruption, fall, falling, flare-up, gravitation, gush, inclination, jet, outbreak, outburst, plummeting, pounce, rapid, riff, riffle, ripple, rush, sault, shoot, spate, spew, spurt, stoop, swoop, torrent, volcan, waterfall

rapist

• rapist, Mafioso, Young Turk, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, betrayer, bomber, brute, bugger, coprophiliac, debaucher, deceiver, defiler, demon, despoiler, devil, dragon, erotomaniac, exhibitionist, fetishist, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, fury, goon, gorilla, gunsel, hardnose, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, incendiary, killer, mad dog, madcap, masochist, monster, mugger, narcissist, necrophiliac, nymphomaniac, paraphiliac, pederast, pedophiliac, raper, ravager, ravisher, revolutionary, sadist, satyr, savage, scotophiliac, seducer, she-wolf, sodomist, sodomite, spitfire, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, transvestite, ugly customer, violator, violent, virago, vixen, voyeur, wild beast, witch, wolf, zoophiliac

rapping

• rapping, accents, banging, blasting, bursting, chatter, colloquial discourse, colloquy, comment, communication, communion, conversation, converse, conversing, cracking, crashing, discourse, elocution, exchange, exploding, explosive, flapping, gab, give-and-take, intercourse, interlocution, knocking, language, oral communication, palaver, parole, popping, prattle, slapping, slatting, speaking, speech, talk, talking, tapping, verbal intercourse, words, yakkety-yak, yakking

rapport

• rapport, accord, accordance, addition, adjunct, affability, affairs, affiliation, affinity, agape, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, alliance, amenity, amiability, amicability, amity, an in, approximation, assemblage, assent, association, bliss, blissfulness, bond, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, camaraderie, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, chorus, closeness, coherence, coincidence, combination, communion, community, community of interests, compatibility, complaisance, concert, concord, concordance, conformance, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, connectedness, connection, consistency, consonance, consort, contiguity, contrariety, cooperation, cordiality, correspondence, dealings, deduction, disjunction, empathy, enjoyableness, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, favor, favorable regard, feeling of identity, felicitousness, fellow feeling, fellowship, filiation, frictionlessness, friendly relations, geniality, good graces, good terms, good understanding, good vibes, good vibrations, goodliness, goodness, goodwill, graciousness, happy family, harmoniousness, harmony, homology, identity, intercourse, intersection, intimacy, junction, kinship, liaison, like-mindedness, link, linkage, linking, love, mellifluousness, mellowness, mutual attraction, mutual regard, mutual understanding, mutuality, nearness, niceness, oneness, overlap, parallelism, peace, pleasance, pleasantness, pleasantry, pleasingness, pleasurability, pleasurableness, pleasure, pleasurefulness, propinquity, proximity, rapprochement, reciprocity, regard, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, respect, self-consistency, sharing, similarity, solidarity, sweetness, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, sync, synchronism, tally, team spirit, tie, tie-in, timing, understanding, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, unity, welcomeness

rapprochement

• rapprochement, accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, amity, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, communion, community, community of interests, compatibility, concord, concordance, congeniality, correspondence, empathy, esprit, esprit de corps, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, frictionlessness, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmonizing, harmony, identity, kinship, like-mindedness, love, making up, mutuality, oneness, peace, rapport, reciprocity, reconcilement, reconciliation, reunion, settlement, sharing, solidarity, sympathy, symphony, team spirit, understanding, union, unison, unity

rapscallion

• rapscallion, bad boy, blackguard, booger, buffoon, bugger, cutup, devil, elf, enfant terrible, funmaker, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, joker, jokester, knave, limb, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, pixie, practical joker, prankster, precious rascal, puck, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, shyster, sneak, spalpeen, villain, wag

rapt

• rapt, absent, absentminded, absorbed, abstracted, arrested, assiduous, beatific, bemused, bewitched, blissful, buried in thought, bursting with happiness, captivated, carried away, castle-building, caught, charmed, constant, continuing, daydreaming, daydreamy, deep, delighted, diligent, dogged, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elate, elated, elsewhere, enchanted, enduring, engaged, engaged in thought, engrossed, engrossed in thought, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, exalted, exultant, faithful, faraway, fascinated, fixed, flushed, freaked out, gripped, half-awake, happy, held, high, hypnotized, immersed, immersed in thought, immutable, imparadised, in a reverie, in ecstasies, in heaven, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, in the clouds, inalterable, indefatigable, indomitable, industrious, insistent, introspective, invincible, joyful, joyous, jubilant, lasting, lost, lost in thought, loyal, meditative, mesmerized, mooning, moonraking, museful, musing, napping, never-tiring, nodding, oblivious, obstinate, occupied, on cloud nine, overjoyed, overjoyful, patient, patient as Job, pensive, permanent, perseverant, persevering, persistent, persisting, pertinacious, pipe-dreaming, plodding, plugging, possessed, preoccupied, raptured, rapturous, ravished, relentless, resolute, rhapsodic, sedulous, sent, single-minded, sleepless, slogging, somewhere else, spellbound, stable, stargazing, steadfast, steady, stubborn, taken up, tenacious, tireless, transported, unabating, unconquerable, unconscious, undaunted, undiscouraged, undrooping, unfailing, unfaltering, unflagging, unflinching, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unnodding, unrelaxing, unrelenting, unremitting, unsleeping, unswerving, untiring, unwavering, unwearied, unwearying, unwinking, utterly attentive, weariless, woolgathering, wrapped, wrapped in thought, wrapped up

raptorial

• raptorial, all-devouring, all-engulfing, bloodsucking, clawed, dentate, digital, digitate, digitated, extortionate, fanged, fingered, grabby, grasping, jawed, lupine, parasitic, predacious, predatory, prehensile, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sharkish, taloned, toothed, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish

rapture

• rapture, abandon, affection, affectionateness, amativeness, amorousness, beatification, beatitude, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, craze, delectation, delight, delirium, demonstrativeness, dharana, dhyana, ecstasis, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, euphoria, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, fire and fury, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, gaiety, gladness, glee, goatishness, happiness, heaven, high spirits, horniness, hypnosis, hysteria, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, joyousness, lovelornness, lovesickness, madness, orgasm, orgy, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, passion, pleasure, rage, ravishment, rhapsody, romanticism, samadhi, sentimentality, seventh, seventh heaven, sexiness, sunshine, susceptibility, tearing passion, thrill, towering rage, trance, transport, unalloyed happiness, yoga trance

rapturous

• rapturous, bursting with happiness, carried away, delighted, ecstatic, elate, elated, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, entranced, euphoric, exalted, exultant, flushed, freaked out, high, imparadised, in ecstasies, in heaven, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, joyful, joyous, jubilant, on cloud nine, overjoyed, overjoyful, possessed, rapt, raptured, ravished, rhapsodic, sent, thrilled, transported

rare

• rare, a cut above, above, admirable, adulterated, ahead, airy, almost unheard-of, another, ascendant, at a premium, attenuate, attenuated, atypical, beguiling, better, bewildering, boyish, breakaway, capping, celebrated, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, choice, chosen, collectable, conspicuous, crude, cut, dainty, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, distinguished, eclipsing, elegant, else, eminent, enigmatic, esteemed, estimable, ethereal, exceeding, excellent, excelling, exceptional, exiguous, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, fallen, fantastic, fascinating, few, fine, fine-drawn, finer, finespun, first-class, first-rate, flimsy, frail, gaseous, gauzy, girlish, good, gossamer, gracile, greater, higher, in ascendancy, in short supply, in the ascendant, incomparable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, infrequent, insubstantial, lacy, light, limited, major, marked, marvelous, matchless, meager, memorable, miraculous, miserly, misty, niggardly, noble, not done, not that sort, not the same, not the type, notable, noteworthy, occasional, of a sort, of another sort, of choice, of mark, of sorts, offbeat, one up on, other, other than, otherwise, out of print, out of season, out of stock, outlandish, outstanding, over, papery, passing strange, peculiar, peerless, phenomenal, piddling, poor, prestigious, prodigious, prominent, puzzling, rarefied, raw, recherche, red, remarkable, rememberable, reputable, rivaling, saignant, salient, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom, seldom met with, seldom seen, select, sensational, signal, singular, skimping, skimpy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, slow, small, sodden, sparse, special, sporadic, spotty, sprinkled, stingy, strange, striking, stupendous, subtile, subtle, sui generis, super, superior, superlative, surpassing, svelte, sylphlike, telling, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, tight, topping, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, unbaked, unboiled, uncommon, uncompact, uncompressed, uncooked, uncustomary, undercooked, underdone, undreamed-of, unexpected, unfamiliar, unforgettable, unfrequent, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unordinary, unparalleled, unprecedented, unsubstantial, unthinkable, unthought-of, unusual, unwonted, upper, vague, vaporous, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, wonderful, wondrous

rarefied

• rarefied, adulterated, air-built, airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, chimerical, clannish, cliquish, cloud-built, cut, dainty, delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, dreamlike, elevated, esoteric, ethereal, exalted, exclusive, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, frail, gaseous, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, high, illusory, imaginary, insubstantial, lacy, lean, light, lofty, misty, noble, papery, phantomlike, private, rare, reduced, scant, scanty, select, shadowy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, sparse, spirituous, sublime, subtile, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish, threadlike, uncompact, uncompressed, unreal, unsubstantial, vague, vaporous, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy

rarefy

• rarefy, add to, adulterate, aggrandize, amplify, attenuate, augment, baptize, bloat, blow up, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, crescendo, cut, dematerialize, develop, dilate, dilute, disembody, distend, emacerate, emaciate, enervate, enlarge, etherealize, expand, extend, hike, hike up, huff, increase, inflate, irrigate, magnify, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, raise, reduce, sap, spiritualize, stretch, subtilize, sufflate, swell, thin, thin away, thin down, thin out, up, water, water down, weaken, widen

rarely

• rarely, abnormally, at infrequent intervals, exiguously, extremely, hardly, hardly ever, here and there, in places, in spots, incredibly, infrequently, little, meagerly, not often, piddlingly, scantily, scarcely, scarcely ever, scrimpily, seldom, seldom if ever, skimpily, sparsely, sparsim, spottily, stingily, uncommon, uncommonly, uncustomarily, unexpectedly, unfrequently, unnaturally, unoften, unordinarily, unusually, very seldom

raring to

• raring to, agog, alacritous, all agog, animated, anxious, avid, breathless, bursting to, desirous, eager, forward, full of life, impatient, keen, lively, panting, prompt, quick, ready, ready and willing, spirited, vital, vivacious, vivid, zestful

rarity

• rarity, abnormality, airiness, airy texture, amazement, anomaly, astonishing thing, astonishment, attenuation, chinchiness, chintziness, conversation piece, curio, curiosity, dearth, delicacy, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, ethereality, exception, exceptionality, exiguity, exility, extraordinariness, fabulousness, fewness, find, fineness, flimsiness, frailty, gauziness, gazingstock, gossameriness, gracility, impossibility, improbability, inconceivability, incredibility, increditability, infrequence, infrequency, insubstantiality, laciness, lightness, marvel, marvelment, marvelousness, meagerness, miracle, miserliness, mistiness, museum piece, mythicalness, niggardliness, nonesuch, occasionalness, oddity, paperiness, paucity, phenomenon, poverty, prodigiosity, prodigiousness, prodigy, quite a thing, rareness, remarkableness, restrictedness, scant sufficiency, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, scrimpiness, seldomness, sensation, sight, skimpiness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, slowness, smallness, something else, sparseness, sparsity, spectacle, stinginess, strange thing, stringency, stunner, stupendousness, subtility, tenuity, thinness, tightness, treasure, uncommonness, unfrequentness, uniqueness, unordinariness, unusualness, unwontedness, vagueness, wateriness, weakness, wispiness, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment

rascal

• rascal, bad boy, bastard, blackguard, blighter, booger, bounder, buffoon, bugger, cad, cutup, dastard, devil, elf, enfant terrible, funmaker, good-for-nothing, heel, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, joker, jokester, knave, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, lowlife, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, miscreant, pixie, practical joker, prankster, precious rascal, puck, rapscallion, rogue, rotter, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, shyster, sneak, spalpeen, villain, wag, wastrel, wretch

rash

• rash, abrupt, abscess, adventuresome, adventurous, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, audacious, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, bold, brash, brazen, brazenfaced, breaking out, breakneck, breathless, cachexia, cachexy, careless, chill, chills, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, daredevil, daring, dashing, deluge, dermatitis, devil-may-care, diaper rash, diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy, drug rash, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, eczema, edema, efflorescence, emaciation, epidemic, eruption, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flood, flux, foolhardy, foolish, growth, hasty, headlong, heat rash, heedless, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hives, hotheaded, hubristic, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, ill-advised, ill-considered, impatient, impetuous, improvident, imprudent, impudent, impulsive, incautious, incogitant, inconsiderate, indigestion, indiscreet, inflammation, injudicious, insolent, insomnia, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, lots, low blood pressure, lumbago, madcap, marasmus, multitude, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, nettle rash, numbers, outbreak, overbold, overcareless, overconfident, overhasty, oversure, overweening, pain, panting, papular rash, paralysis, plague, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, prickly heat, profusion, pruritus, quantity, quick, quixotic, reckless, redness, rheum, rupia, sclerosis, seizure, series, shock, silly, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, spate, succession, sudden, tabes, tachycardia, temerarious, thoughtless, tumor, unadvised, unchary, unconsidered, unthinking, unwary, unwise, upset stomach, urticaria, vaccine rash, venturesome, venturous, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, wave, wild

rasher

• rasher, bit, butt, chip, chunk, clip, clipping, coat, coating, collop, covering, crumb, cut, cutting, deal, disk, dollop, end, feuille, film, flap, foil, fold, fragment, gob, gobbet, hunk, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, leaf, lump, membrane, modicum, moiety, morsel, pane, panel, paring, particle, patina, peel, pellicle, piece, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, safety glass, scoop, scrap, scum, shard, shaving, sheet, shiver, shred, skin, slab, slat, slice, sliver, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, splinter, stitch, stump, table, tablet, tatter, veneer, wafer

rashness

• rashness, abruptness, alacrity, expeditiousness, feverishness, furiousness, haste, hastiness, hurriedness, impatience, impetuosity, impetuousness, impulsiveness, overhastiness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, precipitousness, promptness, quickness, recklessness, speed, suddenness, swiftness

rasp

• rasp, ablate, abrade, abrase, afflict, agonize, ail, annoy, bark, belch, bite, blare, blat, bray, burn, burr, buzz, cackle, caw, chafe, chirr, clang, clangor, clank, clash, convulse, craunch, croak, crucify, crump, crunch, cut, distress, erase, erode, exacerbate, excruciate, fester, file, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, get, give pain, gnaw, gnaw away, grate, grate on, grater, grating, gravel, graze, grind, grinding, gripe, grit, groan, growl, grumble, harrow, hurt, inflame, inflict pain, irk, irritate, jangle, jar, kill by inches, lacerate, martyr, martyrize, nettle, nip, pain, pierce, pinch, prick, prolong the agony, provoke, put to torture, rack, rankle, raze, rub, rub away, rub off, rub out, scour, scranch, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, screech, scrub, scrunch, scuff, set on edge, skin, snarl, snore, squawk, stab, sting, stridulation, torment, torture, twang, tweak, twist, vex, wear, wear away, wear on, wound, wring

rasping

• rasping, ablation, ablative, abradant, abrasion, abrasive, air pollution, attrition, attritive, attritus, bones, bran, buffing, burnishing, chafe, chaff, chafing, cosmic dust, crumb, crumble, culm, deadwood, detrition, dishwater, draff, dregs, dressing, dry, dust, dust ball, efflorescence, erasure, erosion, erosive, fallout, farina, filing, filings, flour, fretting, galling, garbage, gash, gnawing, grating, grazing, grinding, grits, groats, hoarse, hogwash, husks, irritant, irritating, irritative, jangling, jangly, jarring, kittens, leavings, lees, limation, lint, meal, offal, offscourings, orts, parings, polishing, potsherds, powder, pussies, rags, raspings, raspy, raucous, refuse, rough, rubbing away, rugged, sandblasting, sanding, sawdust, scouring, scourings, scrap iron, scrape, scraping, scraps, scrapy, scratch, scratching, scratchy, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, scum, shards, shavings, shining, slack, slag, slop, slops, smoothing, smut, soot, stinging, stridulous, stubble, sweepings, swill, tares, wastage, waste, waste matter, wastepaper, wear, wearing away, weeds

Rasputin

• Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, bad influence, big wheel, court, eminence grise, five-percenter, friend at court, good influence, gray eminence, heavyweight, hidden hand, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingroup, key, kingmaker, lobby, lobbyist, lords of creation, man of influence, manipulator, open sesame, powers that be, pressure group, sinister influence, special interests, special-interest group, the Establishment, very important person, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller

rat race

• rat race, Charybdis, absurdity, aimlessness, bootlessness, busyness, dirty work, dizzy round, donkeywork, drudgery, eddy, employment, emptiness, fag, fatigue, fatuity, fecklessness, fruitlessness, futility, grind, gurge, gyre, handiwork, handwork, hollowness, impotence, inanity, industry, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy, labor, lick, lick of work, maelstrom, manual labor, meaninglessness, moil, nugacity, otiosity, pirouette, plenty to do, pointlessness, press of business, profitlessness, purposelessness, reel, round, scut work, slavery, spadework, spin, stroke, stroke of work, surge, sweat, swirl, task, the absurd, the rat race, tiresome work, toil, travail, treadmill, triviality, turn, twirl, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, valuelessness, vanity, vicious circle, vortex, wheel, whirl, whirlpool, whirlwind, work, worthlessness

rat

• rat, Angora goat, Arctic fox, Belgian hare, Benedict Arnold, Brutus, Caffre cat, Indian buffalo, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Kodiak bear, Quisling, SOB, Virginia deer, aardvark, aardwolf, alpaca, anteater, antelope, antelope chipmunk, aoudad, apar, apostate, apostatize, archtraitor, armadillo, ass, aurochs, babble, badger, bandicoot, bassarisk, bastard, bat, be indiscreet, be unguarded, bear, bear witness against, beaver, betray, betray a confidence, betrayer, bettong, binturong, bison, blab, blabber, black bear, black buck, black cat, black fox, black sheep, blackleg, blow the whistle, blue fox, blurt, blurt out, bobcat, bolt, break away, brown bear, brush deer, brush wolf, buffalo, buffalo wolf, bugger, burro, burro deer, cachalot, camel, camelopard, capybara, carabao, caribou, carpincho, cat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cattalo, cavy, chamois, cheetah, chevrotain, chignon, chinchilla, chipmunk, cinnamon bear, cockatrice, conniver, conspirator, conspirer, coon, coon cat, cotton mouse, cotton rat, cougar, cow, coyote, coypu, creep, cur, deer, deer tiger, defect, defector, desert, dingo, dog, donkey, dormouse, double agent, double-crosser, double-dealer, dromedary, echidna, eland, elephant, elk, ermine, eyra, fall, fallow deer, false hair, fart, ferret, field mouse, fink, fisher, fitch, flying phalanger, foumart, fox, fox squirrel, gazelle, gemsbok, genet, giraffe, give away, glutton, gnu, gnu goat, goat, goat antelope, gopher, grizzly bear, ground squirrel, groundhog, guanaco, guinea pig, hamster, hare, harnessed antelope, hartebeest, hedgehog, heel, hippopotamus, hog, hood, hooligan, horse, hyena, hyrax, ibex, inform, inform against, inform on, informer, intrigant, intriguer, jackal, jackass, jackrabbit, jaguar, jaguarundi, jerboa, jerboa kangaroo, jerk, kaama, kangaroo, kangaroo mouse, kangaroo rat, karakul, kinkajou, kit fox, koala, lapin, leak, lemming, leopard, leopard cat, let down, let drop, let fall, let slip, lion, llama, louse, lynx, machinator, mammoth, mara, marmot, marten, mastodon, meanie, meerkat, mink, mole, mongoose, moose, mother, mouflon, mountain goat, mountain lion, mountain sheep, mouse, mule, mule deer, muntjac, musk deer, musk hog, musk-ox, muskrat, musquash, narc, nark, nilgai, nutria, ocelot, okapi, onager, oont, opossum, otter, ounce, ox, pack rat, painter, panda, pangolin, panther, peach, peccary, peludo, phalanger, pig, pill, pine mouse, platypus, plotter, pocket gopher, pocket mouse, pocket rat, polar bear, polar fox, polecat, porcupine, possum, pouched rat, poyou, prairie dog, prairie wolf, prick, pronghorn, pull out, puma, quisling, rabbit, raccoon, recreant, red deer, red squirrel, reindeer, renounce, repudiate, reveal a secret, rhinoceros, roe, roe deer, roebuck, run out on, runagate, sable, scab, schemer, scum, secede, sell out, serpent, serval, sheep, shit, shithead, shitheel, shrew, shrew mole, sika, silver fox, sing, skunk, sloth, snake, snitch, snitch on, snowshoe rabbit, spill, spill the beans, springbok, squeak, squeal, squirrel, stinkard, stinker, stoat, stool, strikebreaker, suslik, swamp rabbit, swine, switch, takin, talk, tamandua, tamarin, tapir, tarpan, tatou, tatou peba, tatouay, tattle, tattle on, tell on, tell secrets, tell tales, tergiversate, tergiversator, testify against, tiger, tiger cat, timber wolf, timeserver, toad, traitor, treasonist, tree shrew, trimmer, turd, turn, turn informer, turnabout, turncoat, urus, vole, wallaby, warthog, water buffalo, waterbuck, weasel, wharf rat, whistler, white fox, wild ass, wild boar, wild goat, wild ox, wildcat, wildebeest, wolf, wolverine, wombat, wood rat, woodchuck, woolly mammoth, yak, zebra, zebu, zoril

ratable

• ratable, assessable, assessment, cess, chargeable, conscience money, contribution, direct tax, dutiable, duty, graduated taxation, imposition, impost, indirect tax, joint return, leviable, levy, progressive tax, separate returns, single tax, supertax, surtax, tax, tax base, tax dodging, tax evasion, tax exemption, tax return, tax structure, tax withholding, tax-exempt status, taxable, taxable income, taxation, tithable, tithe, toll, tribute, withholding tax

ratchet

• ratchet, cog, comb, crag, fang, harrow, jag, peak, pecten, projection, rake, sawtooth, snag, snaggle, spire, sprocket, spur, steeple, tooth

rate

• rate, VAT, abuse, account, ad valorem duty, admonish, alcohol tax, alphabetize, amount, amusement tax, analyze, antecede, anyhow, anyway, apportion, appraise, appreciate, arithmetical proportion, arrange, assay, assess, assessment on default, assort, at all events, at any rate, bank rate, bark at, bawl out, be deserving, be entitled to, be regarded, be thought of, be worthy of, berate, betongue, blacken, break down, bring to book, calculate, calibrate, caliper, call, call to account, capital gains tax, capitation, capitation tax, career, caste, catalog, categorize, censure, charge, chastise, check a parameter, chew out, chide, class, classification, classify, clip, codify, come before, come first, compensatory interest, compound interest, compute, condition, continued fraction, conversion factor, corporation tax, correct, cost, count, customs, customs duty, damage, death duty, death tax, decrease, deserve, dial, digest, discount rate, divide, doomage, dress down, duty, earn, echelon, estate duty, estate tax, estimate, evaluate, evaluation, excess profits tax, excise, excise tax, execrate, exorbitant interest, expenditure, expense, export tax, face, face value, fair-trade, fathom, federal tax, fee, figure, file, fix, footing, form an estimate, fraction, front, fulminate against, gabelle, gait, gauge, geometric ratio, gift tax, give an appreciation, go ahead of, go before, go in advance, grade, graduate, gross interest, group, guess, harmonic proportion, have priority, have words with, head, head tax, head the table, head up, hierarchy, import tax, improper fraction, in any case, in any event, income tax, increase, index, inheritance tax, interest, interest rate, internal revenue tax, jaw, judge, kick off, kind, land tax, lead, lead off, lecture, lick, liquor tax, list, load with reproaches, local tax, lucrative interest, luxury tax, make an estimation, mark, market value, measure, mensurate, merit, mete, meter, mortgage points, net interest, net worth, notwithstanding, nuisance tax, number, objurgate, order, outrank, pace, par value, parcel, penal interest, pennyworth, percent, percentage, personal property tax, pigeonhole, place, plumb, poll, poll tax, position, power structure, precede, precedence, premium, price, price of money, price tag, prize, probe, progress, property tax, property-increment tax, proportion, protective tariff, provincial tax, quantify, quantize, quota, quote a price, quotum, rag, rail, rail at, range, rank, rate of interest, rates, rating, ratio, rave against, rebuke, reckon, reduce, regardless, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, revenue tariff, revile, rule of three, sales tax, salt tax, scale, school tax, scold, score, set at, set down, set straight, severance tax, simple interest, size, size up, sort, sound, span, spank, specific duty, speed, sphere, stage, stand first, standing, state tax, station, status, step, straighten out, stride, subdivide, survey, tab, tabulate, take a reading, take down, take precedence, take to task, tariff, tariff duty, telephone tax, thunder against, toll, tongue-lash, travel, tread, triangulate, type, upbraid, use tax, usher in, usury, valorize, valuate, valuation, value, value added tax, value received, velocity, vilify, vituperate, weigh, window tax, worth, yell at, yelp at

rated

• rated, ad valorem, appraised, assessed, assorted, cataloged, classified, evaluated, filed, good for, graded, grouped, hierarchic, indexed, on file, pigeonholed, placed, priced, prized, pro rata, pyramidal, ranked, sorted, stratified, tabular, valued, valued at, worth

rather

• rather, OK, Roger, a bit, a little, a rebours, absolutely, acceptably, adequately, after all, again, against the grain, albeit, all right, all the same, alright, alrighty, alternately, alternatively, although, amen, arsy-varsy, as an alternative, as you say, assuredly, at all events, at any rate, aye, before, but, by all means, by choice, by contraries, by election, by proxy, by vote, certainly, choose, choose rather, contra, contrarily, contrariously, contrariwise, conversely, da, decently, even, even so, exactly, extremely, fairishly, fairly, fairly well, faute de mieux, favor, fine, first, for all that, good, good enough, have a bias, have preference, have rather, hear, honor before, howbeit, however, in a measure, in a way, in any case, in any event, in flat opposition, in its place, in its stead, in loco parentis, in preference, in some measure, indeed, indeedy, instead, inversely, it is that, ja, just so, just the opposite, just the same, kind of, lean towards, like better, mais oui, moderately, more, more or less, most assuredly, naturally, naturellement, nay rather, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, of course, okay, on the contrary, oppositely, otherwise, oui, passably, per contra, please, positively, precisely, prefer, prefer to, preferably, presentably, pretty, pretty well, quite, quite the contrary, rather than, really, respectably, right, right as rain, right you are, righto, satisfactorily, scarcely, see fit, set before, slightly, so-so, somewhat, sooner, sooner than, sort of, still, sure, sure thing, surely, that is so, think best, think fit, think proper, though, to a degree, to be sure, to some extent, to the contrary, tolerably, topsy-turvy, tout au contraire, truly, unexceptionably, upside down, very, very well, vice versa, well and good, well enough, when, why yes, yea, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree, yet, you are right, you said it, you speak truly

rathskeller

• rathskeller, alehouse, bar, barrel house, barroom, beer garden, beer parlor, bistro, blind tiger, cabaret, cafe, cocktail lounge, dive, dramshop, drinking saloon, gin mill, groggery, grogshop, honky-tonk, local, nightclub, pothouse, pub, public, public house, rumshop, saloon, saloon bar, speakeasy, taproom, tavern, wine shop

ratification

• ratification, John Hancock, OK, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, affirmance, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative voice, agreement, approbation, approval, assent, attestation, authentication, authority, authorization, aye, backing, backing up, bearing out, blessing, bolstering, buttressing, certification, circumstantiation, clearance, compliance, confirmation, connivance, consent, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, countenance, countersignature, documentation, eagerness, empowerment, enabling, endorsement, enfranchisement, entitlement, fiat, fortification, go-ahead, green light, imprimatur, nod, notarization, okay, permission, promptitude, promptness, proof, proving, proving out, readiness, reinforcement, rubber stamp, sanction, seal, sigil, signature, signet, stamp, stamp of approval, strengthening, submission, subscription, substantiation, support, supporting evidence, the nod, undergirding, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance, validation, verification, visa, vise, warrant, warranty, willingness

ratified

• ratified, accepted, acknowledged, admitted, adopted, affirmed, allowed, appointed, approved, authenticated, avowed, carried, certified, chosen, conceded, confessed, confirmed, countersigned, designated, elect, elected, elected by acclamation, embraced, endorsed, espoused, granted, handpicked, named, nominated, notarized, passed, picked, professed, received, recognized, sealed, select, selected, signed, stamped, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, unanimously elected, underwritten, validated, warranted

ratify

• ratify, OK, accede to, accept, accord to, accredit, adopt, affiliate, affirm, agree to, amen, approve, approve of, assent, attest, authenticate, authorize, autograph, back, back up, be willing, bear out, bolster, buttress, carry, certificate, certify, charter, circumstantiate, clinch, commission, condescend, confirm, connive at, consent, consent to silently, corroborate, cosign, countersign, deign, document, embrace, empower, enable, endorse, enfranchise, ensure, entitle, espouse, establish, fortify, franchise, give consent, give official sanction, give permission, give power, give the go-ahead, give the imprimatur, give thumbs up, go along with, go in for, grant, guarantee, have no objection, hold with, initial, legalize, legitimize, license, nod, nod assent, not refuse, notarize, okay, pass, pass on, pass upon, patent, permit, privilege, probate, prove, reinforce, rubber stamp, sanction, say amen to, say aye, say yes, seal, second, settle, sign, sign and seal, strengthen, subscribe to, substantiate, support, sustain, swear and affirm, swear to, take kindly to, take up, undergird, undersign, underwrite, uphold, validate, verify, visa, vise, vote affirmatively, vote aye, warrant, wink at, yield assent

rating

• rating, abuse, admonishment, admonition, analysis, analyzing, appraisal, appraisement, appraising, appreciation, apprizal, approximation, arrangement, assailing, assault, assessing, assessment, assize, assizement, attack, bank credit, berating, bitter words, blackening, blood, book credit, borrowing power, bracket, branch, calculation, cash credit, caste, castigation, cataloging, categorization, category, chastisement, chiding, clan, class, classification, codification, commercial credit, computation, condition, consumer credit, contumely, correction, credit, credit insurance, credit rating, credit union, determination, diatribe, division, dual pricing, echelon, estate, estimate, estimation, evaluating, evaluation, evaluative criticism, execration, filing, footing, gauging, grade, grading, group, grouping, hard words, head, heading, hierarchy, hire purchase plan, indexing, installment credit, installment plan, instrumentation, invective, investment credit, jawing, jeremiad, kin, label, lecture, lesson, level, line of credit, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, metric system, never-never, objurgation, onslaught, opinion, order, philippic, pigeonhole, pigeonholing, place, placement, position, power structure, precedence, predicament, price determination, pricing, quantification, quantization, race, ranging, rank, ranking, rate, rebuke, reckoning, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, revilement, rubric, scolding, screed, section, sept, sermon, set, sorting, spanking, sphere, stage, standing, station, status, strain, stratification, stratum, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, survey, surveying, tabulation, tax credit, taxonomy, telemetering, telemetry, tick, tirade, title, tongue-lashing, triangulation, trust, typology, unit pricing, upbraiding, valuation, valuing, view, vilification, vituperation, weighing

ratio

• ratio, Vernunft, amount, analogousness, arithmetical proportion, balance, brain, brains, caliber, commensurability, comparability, comparableness, comparativeness, compass, conception, continued fraction, correlation, correspondence, cut, degree, discourse of reason, discursive reason, equivalence, esprit, extent, fraction, geometric ratio, grade, gray matter, harmonic proportion, head, headpiece, height, improper fraction, intellect, intellection, intellectual faculty, intelligence, interval, leap, level, mark, measure, mens, mental capacity, mentality, mind, notch, nous, nuance, pas, peg, percent, percentage, period, pitch, plane, plateau, point, power of reason, proportion, proportionability, psyche, quota, quotum, range, rate, rationality, reach, reason, reasoning, reasoning faculty, relationship, remove, round, rule of three, rung, scale, scope, shade, shadow, similarity, smarts, space, stair, standard, step, stint, tread, understanding

ratiocination

• ratiocination, abstract thought, act of thought, brainwork, cerebration, cogitation, conceit, conception, conceptualization, conclusion, creative thought, deduction, deductive reasoning, demonstration, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, excogitation, headwork, heavy thinking, idea, ideation, illation, imageless thought, induction, inductive reasoning, intellection, intellectual exercise, intellectualization, judgment, logical thought, mental act, mental labor, mental process, mentation, noesis, philosophy, proof, rationalism, rationality, rationalization, rationalizing, reason, reasonableness, reasoning, sequitur, sophistry, specious reasoning, straight thinking, sweet reason, thinking, thinking aloud, thinking out, thought

ration

• ration, administer, allocate, allot, allotment, allowance, amount, apportion, apportionment, assign, assignment, batch, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, budget, bunch, chunk, clutch, comestibles, commission, commons, consignment, contingent, control, count, cut, deal, deal out, destiny, disburse, dispense, disperse, dispose, distribute, distribution, divide, dividend, division, divvy, dole, dole out, dose, eatables, edibles, end, equal share, fate, food, give out, gob, group, half, halver, hand out, heap, helping, hunk, interest, issue, large amount, limit, lot, measure, measure out, meed, mess, mete, mete out, modicum, moiety, number, pack, parcel, parcel out, part, pass around, pay out, percentage, piece, portion, portion out, proportion, prorate, provender, provision, provisions, quantity, quantum, quota, rake-off, rations, restrict, schedule, segment, share, shift, slice, small amount, small share, spoon out, stake, stock, sum, supplies, viands, victuals

rational

• rational, acceptable, admissible, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, all there, analytic, balanced, bright, calm, cardinal, cerebral, circumspect, clear-eyed, clearheaded, clearminded, cogent, commonsense, compos mentis, conceptive, conceptual, consequent, cool, coolheaded, credible, decimal, differential, digital, discriminating, discursive, down-to-earth, earthy, endopsychic, enlightened, even, everyday, exponential, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, hardheaded, healthy-minded, ideational, imaginary, impair, impossible, infinite, informed, integral, intellectual, intelligent, internal, irrational, judicious, just, justifiable, knowing, knowledgeable, legitimate, level-headed, levelheaded, logarithmic, logical, logometric, lucid, matter-of-fact, mental, mentally sound, negative, noetic, noological, normal, not so dumb, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, of sound mind, ordinal, pair, philosophical, phrenic, plausible, positive, positivistic, possible, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, prime, prudent, psychic, psychologic, radical, ratiocinative, ratiocinatory, real, realist, realistic, reasonable, reasoning, reciprocal, right, sane, sane-minded, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensible, sober, sober-minded, sophic, sound, sound-minded, sound-thinking, spiritual, stable, straight-thinking, strong-minded, subjective, submultiple, surd, thinking, together, transcendental, understanding, unideal, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental, well-argued, well-balanced, well-founded, well-grounded, wholesome, wise, worldly

rationale

• rationale, account, allegorization, clarification, cracking, decipherment, decoding, demonstration, demythologization, editing, elucidation, emendation, enlightenment, euhemerism, excuse, exegesis, exemplification, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, grounds, illumination, illustration, justification, light, logic, philosophy, pretense, pretext, principle, rational ground, rationalization, reason, reason for, reason why, reasoning, simplification, solution, stated cause, the big idea, the idea, the whatfor, the wherefore, the why, theory, underlying reason, unlocking

rationalism

• rationalism, Buddhology, Mariolatry, Mariology, Mercersburg theology, apologetics, canonics, crisis theology, deduction, deductive reasoning, demonstration, dialogical theology, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, divinity, doctrinalism, doctrinism, dogmatics, eschatology, existential theology, hagiography, hagiology, hierology, induction, inductive reasoning, logical thought, logos Christology, logos theology, natural theology, neoorthodox theology, neoorthodoxy, patristic theology, phenomenological theology, philosophy, physicotheology, proof, ratiocination, rationality, rationalization, rationalizing, reason, reasonableness, reasoning, religion, scholastic theology, secularism, sophistry, soteriology, specious reasoning, sweet reason, systematics, theology

rationalistic

• rationalistic, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, allegorizing, animist, animistic, annotative, atomistic, clarifying, cosmotheistic, critical, demonstrative, demythologizing, eclectic, editorial, elucidative, empirical, enlightening, eudaemonistic, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative, existential, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositive, expository, glossarial, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, illuminating, illuminative, illustrative, instrumentalist, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, nominalist, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, rationalizing, realist, realistic, scholastic, scholiastic, sensationalistic, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic

rationality

• rationality, IQ, Vernunft, admissibility, apprehension, balance, brain, brains, caliber, capacity, common sense, comprehension, conception, contact with reality, cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, deduction, deductive power, deductive reasoning, demonstration, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, down-to-earthness, due sense of, earthiness, esemplastic power, esprit, freedom from illusion, good sense, gray matter, hardheadedness, head, headpiece, healthy mind, horse sense, ideation, induction, inductive reasoning, integrative power, intellect, intellection, intellectual faculty, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectuality, intelligence, intelligence quotient, justifiability, justness, knowledge, lack of feelings, level head, levelheadedness, logic, logical thought, logicality, logicalness, lucid interval, lucidity, matter-of-factness, mens, mental age, mental balance, mental capacity, mental equilibrium, mental grasp, mental health, mental hygiene, mental poise, mental ratio, mentality, mind, mother wit, native wit, normalcy, normality, normalness, nous, philosophy, plain sense, plausibility, positivism, power of mind, power of reason, practical mind, practical wisdom, practical-mindedness, practicality, practicalness, pragmaticism, pragmatism, proof, psyche, ratio, ratiocination, rationalism, rationalization, rationalizing, realism, reason, reasonability, reasonableness, reasoning, reasoning faculty, reasoning power, right mind, sanemindedness, saneness, sanity, scientism, scope of mind, secularism, sense, senses, sensibleness, smarts, sober senses, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobriety, sophistry, sound mind, sound sense, soundness, soundness of mind, specious reasoning, sweet reason, thinking power, understanding, unidealism, unromanticalness, unsentimentality, wholesomeness, wit, worldliness

rationalization

• rationalization, account, adjustment, alienation, apparent soundness, approach, arrangement, attack, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, casuistry, charting, circularity, clearance, clearing, codification, compensation, conception, contrivance, coordination, decompensation, deduction, deductive reasoning, defense mechanism, demonstration, dereism, dereistic thinking, design, destigmatization, destigmatizing, device, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, disingenuousness, displacement, disposition, dissociation, distortion, emotional insulation, enterprise, envisagement, equivocalness, equivocation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, evasive reasoning, exculpation, explanation, fallaciousness, fallacy, fantasizing, fantasy, figuring, flight, foresight, forethought, game, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, harmonization, idea, induction, inductive reasoning, insincerity, intention, isolation, jesuitism, jesuitry, justification, layout, lineup, logical thought, long-range plan, mapping, master plan, method, methodization, methodology, misapplication, mystification, negativism, normalization, obfuscation, obscurantism, operations research, ordination, organization, overcompensation, oversubtlety, perversion, philosophism, philosophy, plan, planning, planning function, plausibility, plausibleness, prearrangement, procedure, program, program of action, projection, proof, psychotaxis, purgation, purging, ratiocination, rationale, rationalism, rationality, rationalizing, reason, reasonableness, reasoning, regularization, regulation, rehabilitation, reinstatement, resistance, restoration, routinization, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, setup, sociological adjustive reactions, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, strategic plan, strategy, sublimation, substitution, subtlety, sweet reason, system, systematization, tactical plan, tactics, the big picture, the picture, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, vindication, way, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, working plan

rationalize

• rationalize, account, account for, adjust, allegorize, analyze, apply reason, argue insincerely, arrange, calculate, cast, chart, clarify, clear, clear up, codify, concert, contrive, coordinate, crack, cry sour grapes, cut out, decipher, deduce, demonstrate, demythologize, design, destigmatize, devise, distort, do justice to, elucidate, enlighten, euhemerize, exculpate, excuse, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, figure, fix, forecast, frame, generalize, give reason for, give the meaning, harmonize, hypothesize, illuminate, illustrate, infer, intellectualize, intend, justify, lay plans, logicalize, logicize, make a projection, make arrangements, make clear, make plain, methodize, misapply, normalize, organize, paralogize, pervert, philosophize, plan, plan ahead, popularize, prearrange, program, project, provide a rationale, purge, reason, reason ill, reason out, regularize, regulate, rehabilitate, reinstate, restore, routinize, schedule, schematize, set up, settle, shape, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solve, spell out, standardize, syllogize, synchronize, synthesize, systematize, theorize, think through, throw light upon, tune, tune up, unfold, unlock, unravel, use reason, vindicate, warrant, work out, work up

rationally

• rationally, analytically, artfully, astutely, circumspectly, cleverly, considerately, cunningly, discerningly, discreetly, in all conscience, in all reason, in reason, intelligently, judiciously, knowingly, logically, providently, prudently, reasonably, sagaciously, sanely, sensibly, shrewdly, smartly, soundly, syllogistically, thoughtfully, understandingly, wisely, within bounds, within reason, within reasonable limitations

rationing

• rationing, apportionment, arrest, arrestation, budgeting, check, constraint, control, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curb, curtailment, cutting, cutting the pie, deceleration, dividing, division, divvy, hindrance, inhibition, injunction, interdict, legal restraint, monopoly, parceling, partition, partitioning, portioning, prohibition, protection, protectionism, protective tariff, rein, repartition, restraint, restraint of trade, retardation, retrenchment, self-control, sharing, sharing out, slicing, slowing down, splitting, tariff wall, thought control

rations

• rations, C ration, K ration, abundance, accumulation, allotment, allowance, amassment, backlog, board, budget, collection, commissariat, commissary, commons, cornucopia, cumulation, dump, emergency rations, field rations, heap, hoard, inventory, larder, mass, material, materials, materiel, meals, mess, munitions, pile, plenitude, plenty, provisionment, provisions, repertoire, repertory, rick, short commons, stack, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, stores, supplies, supply on hand, treasure, treasury, tucker

rattail

• rattail, braid, brush, bun, cauda, caudal appendage, caudation, chignon, coil, cue, dock, fantail, knot, pigtail, plait, queue, stub, tail, tailpiece, topknot, twist

rattle

• rattle, Bedlam let loose, Klaxon, abash, abate, addle, addle the wits, agitate, agreeable rattle, assault, attenuate, babble, babbler, ball up, battery, bear, bear upon, becloud, bedazzle, bedlam, befuddle, bells, bewilder, bicker, big talker, blab, blabber, blabberer, blast, blather, blatherer, blether, blunt, bobbery, boiler factory, boiler room, bones, boost, bother, bounce, brattle, brawl, brouhaha, buck, bug, bull, bull-roarer, bulldoze, bullshit, bump, bump against, bunt, butt, butt against, cackle, call off, castanets, catcall, celesta, charivari, chat, chatter, chatterbox, chatterer, cherry bomb, chime, chimes, chirm, clack, clacker, clacket, clamor, clangor, clap, clapper, clappers, clatter, clatter about, clitter, clitterclatter, cloud, clunter, commotion, confound, confuse, cracker, crackle, crackling, cram, cramp, crash cymbal, cricket, cripple, crowd, cymbals, damp, dampen, daze, dazzle, deaden, debilitate, devitalize, dig, din, discombobulate, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discord, discountenance, disorganize, disorient, disquiet, distract, disturb, dither, donnybrook, drive, drivel, drool, drunken brawl, dull, dustup, elbow, electrify, embarrass, enervate, enfeeble, entangle, enumerate, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, faze, finger cymbals, firecracker, flap, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, force, fracas, free-for-all, fuddle, fuss, gab, gabber, gabble, gabbler, gamelan, gas, gasbag, gibber, gibble-gabble, gibble-gabbler, glockenspiel, go on, goad, gong, gossip, great talker, gruel, gush, handbells, haver, hell broke loose, horn, hot-air artist, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurtle, hustle, idiophone, idle chatterer, jab, jabber, jabberer, jam, jangle, jar, jaw, jay, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, lay low, list, loud noise, lyra, magpie, maraca, marimba, maze, metallophone, mist, mitigate, mix up, moider, moulin a paroles, muddle, natter, noise, noise and shouting, noisemaker, nudge, orchestral bells, outcry, palaver, pandemonium, patter, patterer, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, perplex, perturb, piffle, pile drive, poke, pother, pour forth, prate, prater, prattle, prattler, press, prod, punch, push, put off, put out, racket, raise hell, ram, ram down, ramble, ramble on, rattle around, rattle on, rattlebones, rattlebox, rattletybang, rattling, recite, reduce, reel off, rhubarb, roar, rock, row, ruckle, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumble, rumpus, run, run against, run on, run through, sap, shake, shake up, shatter, shindy, shivaree, shock, shoulder, shove, siren, sizzler, snapper, snappers, soften up, speed, spout, spout off, stagger, steam whistle, stir, stress, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, tam-tam, tamp, throw into confusion, thrust, thunder, thunderclap, ticktack, tintamarre, tintinnabula, tittle-tattle, tonitruone, triangle, trouble, tubular bells, tumult, twaddle, twattle, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve, unsettle, unstrengthen, unstring, uproar, upset, utter, vapor, vibes, vibraphone, vibrate, waffle, weaken, whistle, whizgig, whizzer, windbag, windjammer, word-slinger, xylophone, yak, yakkety-yak

rattlebrained

• rattlebrained, blank, brainless, dizzy, empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled, featherbrained, featherheaded, flighty, fluttery, frivolous, gaga, giddy, giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, harebrain, harebrained, hollow, inane, jejune, rattleheaded, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, shatterbrained, silly, skittish, thoughtless, vacant, vacuous, vapid, witless

ratty

• ratty, angry, annoyed, beset, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, dirty, disagreeable, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, greasy, grubby, holey, impatient, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, infested, irritable, irritated, lousy, matted, mouselike, mousy, patchy, pedicular, pediculous, peppery, plagued, ragged, raggedy, ravaged, rodent, rodential, scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, short-tempered, straggly, tacky, tattered, tatty, teeming, testy, tetchy, torn, touchy, unkempt, verminous, wormy

raucous

• raucous, absonant, atonal, boisterous, brassy, brazen, brusque, cacophonous, choked, coarse, cracked, croaking, croaky, diaphonic, disconsonant, discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, disorderly, dissonant, dry, ear-splitting, flat, grating, gruff, guttural, harsh, harsh-sounding, hoarse, husky, immelodious, inharmonic, inharmonious, jarring, loud, metallic, musicless, noisy, nonmelodious, off, off-key, off-tone, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, piercing, ragged, rasping, raucid, rough, roupy, rowdy, rowdyish, rude, rumbustious, scratching, scratchy, sharp, shrill, sour, squawking, squawky, stertorous, strangled, strident, stridulous, termagant, thick, throaty, tinny, tumultuous, tuneless, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, unruly, untunable, untuned, untuneful

raunchy

• raunchy, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, bawdy, blue, coarse, dirty, disheveled, filthy, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, fulsome, impure, indecent, ithyphallic, lewd, lurid, messy, nasty, obscene, offensive, pornographic, raw, ribald, salacious, scurrile, scurrilous, slipshod, sloppy, smoking-room, smutty, sultry, unchaste, unclean, unkempt, unneat, unprintable, unrepeatable, untidy, vile, vulgar

ravage

• ravage, abuse, adulterate, alloy, banditry, beset, betray, betrayal, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, brigandage, brigandism, bring to ruin, canker, carnage, cheapen, coarsen, condemn, confound, consume, consumption, contaminate, corrupt, crawl with, creep with, criminal assault, crush, damage, damn, damnation, deal destruction, debase, debauch, debauchment, deceive, decimate, decimation, defile, defilement, defloration, deflower, deflowering, degenerate, degrade, demolish, demolition, denature, deprave, depredate, depredation, desecrate, desolate, desolation, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, devalue, devastate, devastation, devour, direption, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, dissolve, distort, encroach, engorge, fleece, forage, foraging, foray, force, freeboot, freebooting, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, harry, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, incinerate, infect, infest, infestation, invade, invasion, lay in ruins, lay waste, lead astray, loot, looting, lousiness, maraud, marauding, mislead, misuse, overpower, overrun, overrunning, overspread, overspreading, overswarm, overswarming, overthrow, overwhelm, perdition, pervert, pillage, pillaging, plague, plunder, plundering, poison, pollute, prey on, priapism, prostitute, raid, raiding, ransack, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravagement, ravages, ravaging, raven, ravish, ravishment, raze, razzia, reive, reiving, rifle, rifling, rob, ruin, ruinate, ruination, sack, sacking, scourge, seduce, seducement, seduction, sexual assault, shambles, shipwreck, slaughter, soil, spoil, spoiling, spoliate, spoliation, strip, sully, swallow up, swarm, swarm with, swarming, sweep, taint, teeming, throw into disorder, trespass, twist, ulcerate, undoing, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, vandalism, vandalize, vaporize, violate, violation, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreak havoc, wreck, wrecking

ravaged

• ravaged, ablative, ausgespielt, bankrupt, beset, biodegradable, blasted, blighted, blown, broken, corrosive, decomposable, decomposing, degradable, desolated, despoiled, destroyed, devastated, dilapidated, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, done for, done in, down-and-out, drawn, erosive, fallen, finished, flyblown, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fusty, gone to pot, grubby, haggard, hollow-eyed, in ruins, infested, irremediable, kaput, lousy, maggoty, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, musty, overthrown, pedicular, pediculous, plagued, ratty, resolvent, ruined, ruinous, separative, smutted, smutty, solvent, spoiled, teeming, tired-eyed, tired-faced, tired-looking, undone, wan, wasted, weary-looking, weevily, worm-eaten, wormy, worn, wrecked

ravager

• ravager, betrayer, debaucher, deceiver, defiler, depredator, despoiler, forager, forayer, freebooter, looter, marauder, pillager, plunderer, raider, raper, rapist, rapparee, ravisher, reiver, rifler, sacker, seducer, spoiler, spoliator, violator, wrecker

ravages of time

• ravages of time, ablation, atomization, breakup, corridors of time, corrosion, crumbling, decay, decomposition, degradation, dilapidation, disintegration, disjunction, disorganization, dissolution, erosion, hourglass of time, incoherence, resolution, sands of time, scythe of Time, tract of time, use, wear, wear and tear, weathering, whirligig of time

rave

• rave, abuse, acclaim, accolade, admiration, applaud, assault, attack, babble, barbarize, bark at, bash, batter, be angry, be enthusiastic, be excitable, be insane, be livid, be pissed, bellow, berate, betongue, blacken, blast, blow a gasket, blow up, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, boil, bounce, bouquet, brag, browned off, brutalize, bubble over, bully, burn, butcher, carry on, carry on over, catch fire, catch the infection, caterwaul, chafe, come apart, craze, declaim, destroy, do, dote, drivel, drool, effervesce, encomium, enthuse, excite easily, execrate, explode, fad, fashion, favor, fete, fire up, flame up, flare up, flash up, flip, fret, fulminate, fulminate against, fume, gasconade, get excited, go into hysterics, go on, go on over, gush, gush over, hammer, harangue, have a conniption, have a demon, have a tantrum, hector, hit the ceiling, hosanna, howl, intimidate, jaw, last word, laud, lay waste, load with reproaches, loot, make much of, mania, maul, mouth, mug, out-herod Herod, party, perorate, pillage, pissed off, plaudits, praise, rag, rage, rail at, raise Cain, raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, ramble, ramp, rampage, rant, rant and rave, rape, rate, rave about, rave against, revile, rhapsodize, rhapsody, riot, roar, roister, rollick, ruin, run a temperature, run amok, run mad, sack, savage, scream, seethe, shout, simmer, sizzle, slang, slaughter, slaver, slobber, smoke, smolder, soapbox, soiree, sow chaos, splutter, sputter, stew, storm, swagger, swashbuckle, take fire, take on, take on over, tear, tear around, terrorize, testimonial, thing, throw a fit, thunder, thunder against, tongue-lash, trend, tribute, turn a hair, vandalize, vapor, vilify, violate, vituperate, vogue, wander, wingding, wreck, yell, yell at, yelp at, yowl

ravel

• ravel, Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, Rube Goldberg contraption, answer, ball up, bottom, can of worms, clarify, clear up, complex, complicate, confound, confuse, crack, debug, decipher, decode, disembroil, disentangle, disintricate, disinvolve, divine, do, dope, dope out, embrangle, entangle, explain, fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, foul up, get, get right, guess, guess right, have it, hit it, implicate, interpret, involve, jungle, knot, labyrinth, louse up, make out, maze, meander, mesh, mess, mess up, mix up, muck, muck up, muddle, open the lock, perplex, plumb, psych, psych out, puzzle out, ramify, ravel out, resolve, riddle, screw up, snafu, snake pit, snarl, snarl up, solve, sort out, tangle, tangled skein, unbraid, unclutter, uncoil, undo, unknot, unlock, unmix, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, unthread, untwine, untwist, unweave, unwind, webwork, wheels within wheels, wilderness, work, work out

raven

• raven, angry clouds, atramentous, batten, be ravenous, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink, black as midnight, black as night, black cat, black clouds, bolt, bolt down, broken mirror, charcoal, coal, coal-black, coaly, cram, crow, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, deep black, depredate, despoil, devour, ebon, ebony, engorge, eye hungrily, feel hungry, fleece, forage, foray, freeboot, gathering clouds, glut, gluttonize, gobble, gorge, gormandize, gulp, gulp down, gut, guttle, guzzle, halcyon bird, have a tapeworm, hunger, hunger for, ink, ink-black, inky, jet, jetty, live to eat, loot, maraud, midnight, night, night-black, night-dark, nigrous, owl, pillage, pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, plunder, prey on, raid, rainbow, ransack, ravage, raven-black, ravish, reive, rifle, sable, sack, shooting star, sloe, sloe-black, sloe-colored, smoke, smut, soot, spoil, spoliate, starve, storm clouds, stormy petrel, stuff, sweep, tar, tar-black, tarry, thirst, thirst for, thundercloud, thunderhead, wolf, wolf down

ravenous

• ravenous, Apician, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, all-engulfing, avaricious, avid, bloodsucking, bolting, bottomless, coveting, covetous, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, devouring, dog-hungry, edacious, empty, esurient, extortionate, famished, famishing, fasting, glutting, gluttonizing, gluttonous, gobbling, gorging, grabby, grasping, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, half-famished, half-starved, hoggish, hungering, hungry, hyperphagic, insatiable, insatiate, intemperate, limitless, lupine, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, omnivorous, overgreedy, parasitic, peckish, piggish, pinched with hunger, polyphagic, predacious, predatory, quenchless, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, sharkish, sharp-set, slakeless, sordid, starved, starving, stuffing, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unfilled, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unslakeable, unslaked, venal, voracious, vulturine, vulturous, wolfing, wolfish

ravine

• ravine, abysm, abyss, arroyo, bottom, bottom glade, bottoms, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, clove, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, dale, defile, dell, dike, dingle, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gill, glen, gorge, groove, grove, gulch, gulf, gully, gutter, hole, incision, intervale, joint, kloof, leak, linn, lunar rill, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, rent, rift, rime, rupture, scissure, seam, slit, slot, split, strath, trench, trough, vale, valley, void, wadi, wash

raving

• raving, Dionysiac, abandoned, afebrile delirium, amok, anarchic, angry, babble, babbling, bacchic, balderdash, beaming, bellowing, berserk, blooming, bluster, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bombast, brainstorm, bright, brilliant, bullying, bunk, bunkum, carried away, chaotic, claptrap, corybantic, crazed, crazy, dazzling, delirious, deliriousness, delirium, demoniac, desperate, devastating, distracted, divine, dizzy, ecstatic, enraged, enraptured, extraordinary, feral, ferocious, fierce, fighting mad, flatulence, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, fuming, furious, fustian, gab, gabble, gibberish, giddy, glamorous, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, grandiloquence, great, haggard, heavenly, hectoring, hellish, hog-wild, hopping mad, hot air, howling, hyperbole, hysterical, in a rage, in a transport, in hysterics, incoherence, incoherent, infuriate, infuriated, insane, insensate, intoxicated, irrational, killing, lightheaded, like one possessed, lingual delirium, mad, madding, maenadic, magniloquence, maniac, maniacal, manic, mindless, noisy, off, orgasmic, orgastic, orgiastic, outstanding, pandemoniac, phenomenal, pomposity, possessed, puffery, rabid, radiant, raging, rambling, ramping, rant, ranting, rare, ravening, raving mad, ravished, ravishing, resplendent, rhetoric, rip-roaring, roaring, roaring mad, rodomontade, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, running mad, running wild, savage, shining, sparkling, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, stark-raving mad, storming, stormy, striking, stunning, sublime, swaggering, swashbuckling, swashing, tempestuous, transported, troublous, tumultuous, turbulent, uncommon, uncontrollable, unusual, uproarious, vaporing, violent, wandering, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking

ravish

• ravish, abuse, adulterate, alloy, assault sexually, becharm, betray, bewitch, canker, captivate, carry away, charm, cheapen, coarsen, confound, contaminate, corrupt, debase, debauch, deceive, defile, deflorate, deflower, degenerate, degrade, delectate, delight, denature, deprave, depredate, desecrate, despoil, devalue, devirginate, distort, enchant, enrapture, enravish, enthrall, entrance, fascinate, fleece, forage, foray, force, freak out, freeboot, gut, imparadise, infect, knock dead, knock out, lead astray, loot, maraud, mislead, misuse, outrage, pervert, pillage, plunder, poison, pollute, possess sexually, prey on, prostitute, raid, ransack, rape, ravage, raven, reive, rifle, ruin, sack, seduce, send, slay, soil, spellbind, spoil, spoliate, sully, sweep, taint, take, thrill, tickle, tickle pink, titillate, trance, transport, twist, ulcerate, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, wow

ravished

• ravished, abandoned, amok, bellowing, berserk, bursting with happiness, carried away, delirious, demoniac, distracted, ecstatic, elate, elated, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, entranced, exalted, exultant, feral, ferocious, fierce, flushed, frantic, freaked out, frenzied, fulminating, furious, haggard, high, hog-wild, howling, hysterical, imparadised, in a transport, in ecstasies, in heaven, in hysterics, in paradise, in raptures, in seventh heaven, intoxicated, jubilant, mad, madding, maniac, on cloud nine, orgasmic, orgiastic, overjoyed, overjoyful, possessed, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, rapt, raptured, rapturous, raving, rhapsodic, roaring, running mad, sent, storming, transported, uncontrollable, violent, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking

ravisher

• ravisher, betrayer, debaucher, deceiver, defiler, depredator, despoiler, forager, forayer, freebooter, looter, marauder, pillager, plunderer, raider, raper, rapist, rapparee, ravager, reiver, rifler, sacker, seducer, spoiler, spoliator, violator, wrecker

ravishment

• ravishment, abandon, abuse, banditry, beatification, beatitude, betrayal, bewitchment, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, brigandage, brigandism, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, craze, criminal assault, debauchment, defilement, defloration, deflowering, deflowerment, delectation, delight, delirium, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation, devirgination, direption, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, enchantment, exaltation, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, fire and fury, foraging, foray, freebooting, frenzy, furor, furore, fury, gaiety, gladness, glee, happiness, heaven, high spirits, hysteria, intoxication, joy, joyance, joyfulness, looting, madness, marauding, orgasm, orgy, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, paradise, passion, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, priapism, rage, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, rapture, ravage, ravagement, ravaging, razzia, reiving, rifling, sack, sacking, seducement, seduction, seventh heaven, sexual assault, sexual possession, spoiling, spoliation, sunshine, taking, tearing passion, towering rage, transport, unalloyed happiness, violation

raw deal

• raw deal, atrocity, bad fortune, bad luck, disservice, evil dispensation, evil fortune, evil star, frowns of fortune, great wrong, grievance, gross injustice, hard lines, hard luck, ill fortune, ill luck, ill wind, imposition, injury, injustice, miscarriage of justice, outrage, rotten break, rotten luck, wrong

raw recruit

• raw recruit, abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, catechumen, conscript, deb, debutant, draft, drafted man, draftee, enlistee, enrollee, entrant, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, inductee, infant, initiate, learner, levy, neophyte, nestling, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, postulant, probationer, probationist, recruit, rookie, selectee, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro

raw

• raw, Rabelaisian, Siberian, a novice at, a stranger to, abusive, adolescent, algetic, algid, angry, arctic, at half cock, awkward, bald, bare, bare-ass, bareness, below zero, birthday suit, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blankminded, blasphemous, bleak, blinding, blown, boreal, brisk, broad, brumal, budding, burning, callow, calumniatory, calumnious, chafed, coarse, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, comminatory, contumelious, crass, crisp, crude, cursing, cutting, damnatory, decollete, denunciatory, dewy, dirty, dumb, dysphemistic, earthy, ecdysiast, empty, empty-headed, epithetic, ever-new, evergreen, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, exposed, exposed nerve, festering, fiery, firsthand, flaring, flashy, flaunting, fledgling, foul, frank, freezing, freezing cold, fresh, frigid, fulminatory, galled, garish, gauche, gaudy, gelid, glacial, glaring, green, green as grass, groping, gross, growing, gutter, gymnosophical, gymnosophist, gymnosophy, half-baked, half-cocked, half-grown, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, ignorant, ill-digested, immature, imprecatory, impubic, impure, in native buff, in puris naturalibus, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, inane, inclement, inexperienced, inflamed, ingenuous, innocent, intact, irritated, juicy, juvenile, keen, know-nothing, loud, low, lurid, maiden, maidenly, maledictory, meretricious, minor, naive, naked, nakedness, native, naturism, naturist, naturistic, neoteric, nerve ending, nescient, nestling, new, new to, new-fledged, nipping, nippy, not a stitch, nude, nudism, nudist, nudity, numbing, obscene, original, overbright, peeled, penetrating, piercing, pinching, pristine, profane, rank, rankling, rare, raw nerve, red, ribald, rigorous, ripening, risque, rough, rude, sappy, scatologic, screaming, scurrile, scurrilous, sempervirent, sensitive, severe, sharp, shrieking, simple, sleety, slushy, smarting, snappy, soft spot, sore, sore point, sore spot, stark-naked, state of nature, stone-cold, strange to, stripper, stripteaser, subzero, supercooled, tender, tender spot, tentative, the altogether, the nude, the quick, the raw, tingling, toplessness, unaccustomed to, unacquainted, unacquainted with, unadult, unapprized, unbaked, unbeaten, unboiled, uncomprehending, unconversant, unconversant with, uncooked, uncouth, underage, undercooked, underdone, underripe, undeveloped, unenlightened, unexperienced, unfamiliar, unfamiliar with, unfledged, unformed, ungrown, unhandled, unilluminated, uninformed, uninitiated, uninitiated in, unintelligent, unknowing, unlicked, unmatured, unmellowed, unposted, unpracticed, unpracticed in, unripe, unseasoned, unskilled in, unsure, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unused to, unversed, unversed in, vacuous, vernal, vile, virgin, virginal, vituperative, vulgar, windblown, windswept, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, with nothing on, without a stitch, young

rawboned

• rawboned, angular, bony, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, lank, lanky, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, meager, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skinny, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, twiggy, undersized, underweight

rawhide

• rawhide, Leatherette, Leatheroid, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, blacksnake, buffet, bullwhack, bullwhip, cane, cat, club, coat, cowhide, crop, cudgel, cut, cuticle, dermis, drub, fell, flagellate, flagellum, flail, fleece, flesh, flog, fur, furring, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hide, horsewhip, imitation fur, imitation leather, integument, jacket, knout, kurbash, lace, lash, lay on, leather, leather paper, outer layer, outer skin, pelt, peltry, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, quirt, razor strap, rind, scourge, sheath, sjambok, skin, skins, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, tegument, thong, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, vair, wallop, whale, whip, whiplash, whop

ray of sunshine

• ray of sunshine, Leibnizian optimist, Pollyanna, aspirant, aspirer, broad day, chiliast, dawn, day, day glow, daylight, dayshine, daytide, daytime, dusk, full sun, green flash, hopeful, hoper, irrepressible optimist, light of day, midday sun, millenarian, millennialist, millennian, noonlight, noontide light, optimist, perfectibilist, perfectibilitarian, perfectionist, philosophical optimist, shine, sun spark, sunbeam, sunbreak, sunburst, sunlight, sunshine, twilight, utopian

ray

• ray, Reptilia, X ray, actinic ray, actinism, amplitude, antinode, atom, atomic beam, atomic ray, beam, beam of light, crest, de Broglie wave, diffraction, diffuse, diffusion, disperse, dispersion, drop, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic wave, emanate, emanation, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, gamma ray, gleam, guided wave, in phase, infrared ray, interference, invisible radiation, jot, leam, light, longitudinal wave, lota, mechanical wave, minim, molecule, moonbeam, node, out of phase, patch, pencil, period, periodic wave, photon, radiance, radiate, radiation, radio wave, radiorays, radius, ray of light, reinforcement, resonance, resonance frequency, ribbon, ribbon of light, scatter, scattering, scrap, seismic wave, shaft, shock wave, shoot, shred, smidgen, solar rays, sound wave, spoke, spread, streak, stream, stream of light, streamer, sunbeam, surface wave, tidal wave, transverse wave, trough, ultraviolet ray, violet ray, wave, wave equation, wave motion, wave number, wavelength

rayless

• rayless, ableptical, amaurotic, beamless, benighted, bereft of light, black, black as night, blind, caliginous, color-blind, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkling, darksome, dim-sighted, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, eyeless, hemeralopic, in darkness, mind-blind, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, nyctalopic, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occulted, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, sightless, spiritually blind, stark blind, starless, stone-blind, sunless, tenebrious, tenebrose, tenebrous, undiscerning, unenlightened, unilluminated, unlighted, unlit, unobserving, unperceiving, unseeing, visionless

raze

• raze, ablate, abrade, abrase, align, bark, beat down, blot, blot out, blow down, blow over, bowl down, bowl over, break down, bring down, bulldog, bulldoze, burn down, cancel, cast down, chafe, chop down, cross out, cut down, dash down, decimate, deck, dele, delete, demolish, destroy, down, drop, efface, equalize, erase, erode, even, expunge, fell, fetch down, file, flatten, floor, flush, fray, frazzle, fret, gall, gnaw, gnaw away, grade, grate, graze, grind, ground, hew down, knock down, knock over, lay, lay down, lay flat, lay level, lay low, lay out, level, mow down, obliterate, precipitate, prostrate, pull down, rase, rasp, roll, roll flat, rub away, rub off, rub out, ruin, rule out, scour, scrape, scratch, scratch out, scrub, scuff, send headlong, skin, smash, smooth, smooth out, smoothen, sponge, sponge out, spread-eagle, steamroll, steamroller, strike out, supinate, take down, tear down, throw, throw down, topple, trip, tumble, unbuild, undo, unmake, wear, wear away, whack down, wipe out, wrack, wreck

razz

• razz, Bronx cheer, banter, bird, boo, booing, catcall, chaff, deride, fool, grin at, haze, hiss, hissing, hold in derision, hoot, jape, jest, jive, joke, jolly, josh, kid, laugh at, laugh to scorn, lout, make fun of, make game of, make merry with, mock, needle, pan, pillory, point at, poke fun at, pooh, pooh-pooh, put on, put one on, quiz, rag, rally, raspberry, rib, ride, ridicule, roast, scout, smile at, snicker at, snigger at, taunt, tease, the bird, twit

razzing

• razzing, banter, bantering, booing, catcalling, chaffing, derision, derisive, derisory, fleering, flippancy, flippant, fooling, grinning, hazing, hissing, hooting, jeering, jesting, joking, jollying, joshing, kidding, leering, levity, mockery, mocking, panning, quizzical, ragging, railing, raillery, rallying, ribbing, ridicule, ridiculing, roasting, scoffing, smart, smart-aleckiness, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smartness, smirking, sneering, snickering, sniggering, snorting, taunting, teasing, twitting

re create

• re create, accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, ameliorate, better, break up, change, convert, copy, deform, denature, diversify, do over, duplicate, fit, improve, make over, meliorate, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, overthrow, qualify, re-form, realign, reassemble, rebuild, reconstitute, reconstruct, redesign, redo, reestablish, refabricate, refashion, refit, reform, refound, regenerate, reinstitute, reissue, remake, remodel, renew, renovate, reorganize, repeat, reprint, reproduce, reshape, restore, restructure, resurrect, revamp, revise, revive, ring the changes, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, subvert, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, vary, work a change, worsen

re creation

• re creation, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, betterment, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, copy, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, duplication, fitting, flip-flop, gradual change, imitation, improvement, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, overthrow, palingenesis, qualification, radical change, re-formation, realignment, reassembling, reassembly, rebirth, rebuilding, reconstitution, reconstruction, redesign, redoing, reedition, reestablishment, refabrication, refashioning, reform, reformation, regeneration, regenesis, reinstitution, reissue, remaking, remodeling, renascence, renewal, renovation, reorganization, repetition, reprinting, reproduction, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, resurrection, reversal, revision, revival, revivification, revolution, shift, sudden change, switch, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, worsening

re form

• re form, amend, copy, do over, duplicate, make over, new-model, re-create, reassemble, rebuild, reclaim, reconstitute, reconstruct, redeem, redesign, redo, reestablish, refabricate, refashion, reform, refound, regenerate, reinstitute, reissue, remake, remodel, renew, renovate, reorganize, repeat, reprint, reproduce, reshape, restore, restore self-respect, restructure, resurrect, revise, revive, set straight

re

• re, about, anent, apropos of, as, as for, as regards, as respects, as to, concerning, in connection with, in point of, in re, in reference to, in regard to, in relation to, in relation with, in respect to, of, on, pertaining to, pertinent to, referring to, regarding, relating to, relative to, respecting, speaking of, touching, upon, with regard to, with respect to

reach out

• reach out, be lengthy, be prolonged, belong, carry, carry out, cover, crane, encompass, environ, extend, extend out, go, go out, hold, lie, outdistance, outlie, outrange, outreach, outstretch, range, range out, reach, run, span, sprawl, spread, stand on tiptoes, straddle, straggle, stretch, stretch out, surround, sweep, take in, thrust out

reach

• reach, accomplish, achieve, aesthetic distance, affect, ambit, amount, amount to, amplitude, answer, approach, approach anchorage, area, arm, armlet, arrive, arrive at, arrive in, arrive upon, assail the ear, attain, attain to, auditory range, avail, balance, bay, bayou, be equal to, be heard, be received, bear, bear down on, bear down upon, bear up for, bear up to, belt, bight, bigness, blow in, bob up, boca, body, breadth, break even, bribe, buck, bulk, buy, buy off, caliber, capability, capacity, caress the ear, carry, carry to, carrying distance, check in, circulate, clearance, clip off, clock in, close with, come, come across with, come at, come in, come to, come to hand, come up to, come upon, communicate with, compass, contact, correspond, corrupt, cove, cover, coverage, creek, cut, deep space, degree, deliver, deliver over, depth, depths of space, diameter, diapason, dimension, dimensions, distance, distribute, ditto, divergence, do, do it, draw, earreach, earshot, encompass, environ, equal, establish connection, estuary, euripus, even, even off, expanse, expansion, extend, extend to, extension, extent, fall upon, farness, fetch, fetch up at, fill the bill, find, fix, fjord, fork over, forward, frith, fulfill, gain, gain a hearing, gamut, gauge, get, get across, get at, get by, get in, get there, get through to, get to, girth, give in, give out, give over, go, go aboard, go alongside, go around, go at, go out, go to, grade, grease, grease the palm, greatness, grieve, gulf, gut, hack it, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, harbor, hearing, height, hit, hit town, hit upon, hold, hold out, horizon, impress, infinity, influence, inlet, interrogate, interval, just do, keep pace with, ken, knot, kyle, largeness, lay aboard, lay for, lay in, lead to, leap, leeway, length, lengthiness, level, lie, lie in, light upon, light-years, linear measures, loch, long time, longitude, longness, magnitude, maintain connection, make, make advances, make an impression, make at, make contact with, make for, make it, make oneself heard, make overtures, make the grade, make up to, margin, mark, mass, match, match up with, measure, measure up to, measurement, meet, meet requirements, melt, melt the heart, mileage, mouth, move, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, notch, nuance, orbit, outreach, outstretch, overall length, parallel, parsecs, pas, pass, pass muster, pass out, pass over, pay off, peg, period, perpetuity, perspective, piece, pitch, pitch upon, plane, plateau, point, pop up, proportion, proportions, pull in, punch in, purchase, purview, put away for, put in, put into port, qualify, question, radius, raise, range, ratio, reach out, reach the ear, reach to, realize, register, register with, relate to, remoteness, remove, render, reply to, resign, respond to, ring in, rival, road, roads, roadstead, roll in, round, run, run abreast, run for, run to, rung, sadden, sail for, satisfy, scale, scope, score, separation, serve, serve the purpose, shade, shadow, shoot, show, show up, sign in, size, soften, sound, space, span, spectrum, sphere, spread, stack up with, stair, stand, stand for, stand up, standard, steer toward, step, stick out, stint, stir, straddle, strait, straits, stretch, stretch away to, stretch out, stretch to, stride, strike upon, stumble on, stumble upon, suborn, suffice, surrender, surround, sway, sweep, take care of, take in, take it, tamper with, territory, thrust out, tickle the palm, tie, time in, touch, transfer, tread, turn over, turn up, volume, way, ways, width, win, work, yardage

react

• react, acknowledge, act, answer, answer back, be affected, be in tune, be inspired, be involved, be moved, behave, care about, catch the flame, catch the infection, change color, color with emotion, come back, come back at, dig, echo, empathize with, flash back, function, give acknowledgment, give answer, identify with, operate, perform, proceed, reciprocate, recur, reecho, rejoin, relate to emotionally, renovate, reply, respond, retaliate, retort, return, return answer, return for answer, reverberate, revert, riposte, say, say in reply, share, shoot back, snap back, sympathize with, take, take the bait, talk back, turn, turn back, work

reaction

• reaction, Bourbonism, Toryism, acknowledgment, action and reaction, aeromotor, affect, affection, answer, answering, antagonism, antipathy, antiphon, assumption, attitude, back answer, back talk, backchat, backlash, backset, backsliding, backward motion, backward step, backwardness, backwash, brain disease, challenge, clashing, climate of opinion, clout, collision, combative reaction, comeback, common belief, community sentiment, compensation, complaint, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, conflict, confutation, consensus gentium, conservatism, conservativeness, consideration, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, counteraction, counterbalance, counterposition, counterworking, crack-up, crankiness, crotchetiness, defiance, demur, die-hardism, dispute, dissent, dissentience, echo, effect, emotion, emotional charge, emotional disorder, emotional instability, emotional shade, estimate, estimation, ethos, evasive reply, experience, extreme right, extreme right wing, extreme rightism, eye, feedback, feeling, feeling tone, force, foreboding, fractiousness, friction, functional nervous disorder, general belief, gut reaction, heartthrob, idea, impact, impress, impression, imprint, insanity, interference, jet power, jet propulsion, judgment, kick, know-nothingism, laissez-faireism, lapse, lights, maladjustment, manic-depressive psychosis, mark, melancholia, mental disorder, mental illness, mind, monarchism, mystique, negativism, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, nonconformity, noncooperation, notion, objection, observation, obstinacy, old school tie, opinion, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, paranoia, passion, passive resistance, personal judgment, personality disorder, perverseness, point of view, popular belief, position, posture, power plant, presentiment, presumption, prevailing belief, print, problems in living, profound sense, protest, psychosis, public belief, public opinion, radical rightism, ram-jet propulsion, reaction propulsion, reactionariness, reactionaryism, ready reply, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, receipt, recession, recidivation, recidivism, reciprocation, recoil, reentry, reflex, refluence, reflux, refractoriness, regress, regression, rejoinder, relapse, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repartee, repellence, repellency, repercussion, replication, reply, repost, reprisal, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, rescript, rescription, resistance, resojet propulsion, respondence, response, responsion, responsory, retaliation, retort, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrogression, retrusion, return, revenge, reverberation, revolt, rightism, riposte, rocket power, rocket propulsion, rollback, royalism, schizophrenia, sensation, sense, sentiment, setback, short answer, sight, snappy comeback, social Darwinism, social maladjustment, stance, stand, standpattism, sternway, swimming upstream, theory, thinking, thought, throwback, turbojet propulsion, ultraconservatism, uncooperativeness, undercurrent, unprogressiveness, view, way of thinking, withstanding, witty reply, witty retort, yes-and-no answer

reactionary

• reactionary, Bircher, Bourbon, Colonel Blimp, Epistle side, Methuselah, Tory, antagonistic, antediluvian, antipathetic, antiphonal, antique, atavistic, back number, bellyacher, bitter-ender, blimp, breakaway, clashing, clockwise, complainant, complainer, conflicting, conservatist, conservative, contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, crab, crank, cranky, croaker, crotchety, dad, decanal side, dexter, dextral, dextrocardial, dextrocerebral, dextrocular, dextrogyrate, dextrogyratory, dextropedal, dextrorotary, dextrorse, die-hard, diehard, dissident, dodo, elder, extreme right-winger, faultfinder, fogy, fogyish, fossil, frondeur, fud, fuddy-duddy, granny, griper, grouch, grouser, growler, grumbler, hard hat, has-been, hostile, imperialist, inimical, intransigent, kicker, kvetch, longhair, malcontent, matriarch, mid-Victorian, monarchist, mossback, murmurer, mutterer, nonconformist, nonprogressive, off, old believer, old crock, old dodo, old fogy, old liner, old man, old poop, old woman, old-line, old-timer, opposing, oppositional, oppugnant, orthodox, patriarch, perverse, pop, pops, querulous person, radical right, reacting, reactionarist, reactionist, reactive, rebel, recalcitrant, recessive, recidivist, recidivous, recto, reflex, reflexive, refluent, regressive, regular old fogy, relic, renitent, repugnant, resistant, respondent, responding, responsive, retroactionary, retroactive, retrocessive, retrograde, retrogressive, retrorse, retroverse, returnable, reversible, reversional, reversionary, revertible, revolutionary, revulsionary, revulsive, right, right field, right hand, right of center, right side, right wing, right-hand, right-wing, right-winger, right-wingish, rightist, royalist, social Darwinist, sorehead, square, standpat, standpatter, starboard, starboard tack, starets, tory, traditionalist, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, unprogressive, whiner, white

reactionism

• reactionism, Bourbonism, Toryism, backwardness, conservatism, conservativeness, die-hardism, extreme right, extreme right wing, extreme rightism, know-nothingism, laissez-faireism, monarchism, old school tie, radical rightism, reaction, reactionariness, reactionaryism, rightism, royalism, social Darwinism, standpattism, ultraconservatism, unprogressiveness

reactivate

• reactivate, activate, give back, mobilize, place in, put back, recharge, reconstitute, reconvert, recruit, reenact, reestablish, refill, reform, rehabilitate, reinstall, reinstate, reinstitute, reintegrate, reinvest, rekindle, remilitarize, renew, renovate, replace, replenish, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, retrieve, return, revest, revitalize, revivify

reactor

• reactor, atomic pile, breeder reactor, bricks, chain reactor, chain-reacting pile, fast pile, furnace, heterogeneous reactor, homogeneous reactor, intermediate pile, lattice, neutron factory, nuclear furnace, pile, plutonium reactor, power reactor, power-breeder reactor, radioactive waste, reactor pile, rods, slow pile, stellarator, uranium reactor

read the riot act

• read the riot act, admonish, bring to book, call to account, chastise, chide, correct, have words with, lecture, objurgate, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reprove, scold, set down, set straight, spank, straighten out, take down, take to task, upbraid

read

• read, absorb, announce, appreciate, apprehend, assign to, assimilate, be with one, bone, catch, catch on, comprehend, con, conceive, construe, contemplate, correct copy, debate, decipher, declaim, define, deliver, demagogue, describe, diagnose, dig, digest, drill, elocute, elucubrate, examine, fathom, feel out, fly a kite, follow, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, go in for, go over, grasp, grind, harangue, have, have it taped, hold forth, impute to, indicate, interpret, ken, know, learn, look over, lucubrate, major in, mark, master, minor in, mouth, orate, out-herod Herod, perorate, peruse, plunge into, pore over, practice, present, probe, proofread, rabble-rouse, rant, read for, read into, read law, realize, recite, record, regard studiously, register, restudy, review, rodomontade, savvy, say, scan, seize, seize the meaning, sense, skim, sound, sound out, specialize in, spiel, spout, study, study for, study to be, swot, take, take in, take it that, take to mean, tub-thump, understand, understand by, vet, wade through

readable

• readable, absorbing, allegorical, apprehensible, articulate, associational, cognizable, comprehensible, connotational, connotative, decipherable, definable, denotational, denotative, distinct, easily understood, easy to understand, engaging, enjoyable, entertaining, exciting, exoteric, expressive, extended, extensional, fair, fathomable, figurative, full of meaning, full of point, full of substance, in the clear, indicative, intelligible, intensional, interesting, interpretable, inviting, juicy, knowable, legible, lively, meaning, meaningful, meaty, metaphorical, penetrable, piquant, pithy, plain, pleasurable, plumbable, pointed, pregnant, prehensible, provocative, provoking, racy, referential, rich, scrutable, sententious, significant, significative, spicy, stimulating, substantial, succulent, suggestive, symbolic, tantalizing, thought-challenging, thought-inspiring, thought-provoking, tickling, titillating, transferred, uncoded, understandable, unenciphered, worthwhile

reader

• reader, Bible clerk, Bible reader, Boanerges, Flexowriter typewriter, Teleplotter, abecedarium, abecedary, achromatic lens, acolyte, acolytus, almoner, alphabet book, alphabetical printer, anagnost, assistant, assistant professor, associate, associate professor, astigmatic lens, battledore, beadle, bedral, burning glass, camera, capitular, capitulary, casebook, chalk talker, choir chaplain, churchwarden, city editor, clerk, coated lens, columnist, concave lens, concavo-convex lens, condenser, convex lens, copy chief, copy editor, copyholder, copyman, copyreader, correspondent, cub reporter, deacon, deaconess, diaconus, diaskeuast, digital graph plotter, discourser, diseur, diseuse, doorkeeper, editor, editorial writer, elder, elderman, elocutioner, elocutionist, emeritus, exercise book, exorcist, exorcista, expositor, expounder, eyeglass, eyepiece, feature editor, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, glass, gradus, grammar, hand lens, hard copy, holy orders, homilist, hornbook, improvisator, improvvisatore, instructor, interviewer, journalist, lay elder, lay reader, leader writer, lector, lecturer, leg man, lens, magnetic recorder, magnetic tape, magnifier, magnifying glass, major orders, managing editor, manual, manual of instruction, meniscus, microcards, microfiche, microfilm, minor orders, news editor, newsman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, object glass, objective, objective prism, ocular, oscillograph recorder, oscilloscope, ostiarius, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, parish clerk, praelector, preacher, precentor, presbyter, pressman, priest, primer, printout, prism, professor, professor emeritus, proofreader, publicist, pulpitarian, pulpiteer, punch cards, punched tape, reading glass, readout, recitationist, reciter, recorder, relay register, reporter, retired professor, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, ruling elder, sacrist, sacristan, schoolbook, sermoner, sermonist, sermonizer, sexton, shames, sidesman, slotman, sob sister, special correspondent, speller, spelling book, sports editor, subdeacon, subdiaconus, subeditor, succentor, suisse, t, tape reader, teaching elder, telephoto lens, teletypewriter, text, thurifer, toric lens, tutor, varifocal lens, verger, vergeress, visiting professor, war correspondent, workbook, zoom lens

readily

• readily, agilely, agreeably, animatedly, anxiously, apace, ardently, at once, at short notice, avidly, breathlessly, charitably, cheerfully, de bonne volonte, eagerly, easily, effortlessly, enthusiastically, expeditiously, facilely, freely, gladly, graciously, hands down, happily, immediately, impatiently, in no time, instantaneously, instanter, instantly, keenly, lightly, like clockwork, like nothing, nimbly, no sweat, on easy terms, on short notice, promptly, pronto, quickly, right away, simply, smoothly, speedily, spryly, swiftly, swimmingly, ungrudgingly, vivaciously, well, willingly, with a will, with alacrity, with dispatch, with good will, with gusto, with open arms, with relish, with zest, without delay, without difficulty, zealously, zestfully

readiness

• readiness, Italian hand, OK, a thing for, ability, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, acuity, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, affirmative, affirmative voice, agility, agreeability, agreeableness, agreement, airmanship, alacrity, alertness, amenability, animation, anticipation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, approbation, approval, aptitude, aptness, ardor, art, artfulness, artifice, artisanship, artistry, assent, astuteness, attention, attentiveness, avidity, avidness, aye, beginnings, bent, bias, blessing, bravura, breathless impatience, brightness, brilliance, briskness, cageyness, callidity, canniness, capability, capacity, cast, cheerful consent, cheerful readiness, cheerfulness, cleverness, command, competence, competency, compliance, conatus, condition, conduciveness, connivance, consent, contemplation, control, cooperativeness, coordination, craft, craftiness, craftsmanship, cunning, cunningness, decisiveness, deftness, delight, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diathesis, diplomacy, discretion, dispatch, disposition, docility, eagerness, earliness, early hour, early stage, ease, educability, efficiency, elan, eloquence, endorsement, enthusiasm, envisagement, envisionment, expedition, expeditiousness, expertise, expertness, facility, farseeingness, farsightedness, favorable disposition, favorableness, feeling for, fine Italian hand, finesse, first crack, first stage, fitness, fittedness, fluency, forecast, foreglance, foregleam, foreglimpse, forehandedness, foreseeing, foresight, foresightedness, forwardness, foxiness, gameness, gamesmanship, goodwill, grace, graciousness, grip, ground floor, guile, gust, gusto, handiness, head start, horsemanship, immediacy, immediateness, impatience, impressionability, in readiness, inclination, ingeniousness, ingenuity, insidiousness, instantaneousness, intelligence, inventiveness, keen desire, keenness, know-how, leaning, liability, life, liking, liveliness, longsightedness, looking ahead, malleability, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, maturity, moldability, motivation, nimbleness, okay, one-upmanship, penchant, permission, plasticity, pliability, pliancy, practical ability, prediction, predilection, predisposition, prejudice, preparation, preparedness, prepublication, prevenience, preview, prevision, probability, proclivity, proficiency, promptitude, promptness, proneness, propensity, prospect, prospection, providence, provision, prowess, prudence, punctuality, punctualness, qualification, quickness, rapidity, ratification, ready, receptive mood, receptiveness, receptivity, resource, resourcefulness, responsiveness, right mood, ripeness, running start, sagacity, sanction, satanic cunning, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, seasoning, sensitivity to, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, skill, skillfulness, sleeplessness, sleight, slipperiness, slyness, smartness, sneakiness, soft spot, sophistry, speediness, spirit, spryness, stealth, stealthiness, style, submission, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suitability, suitableness, suitedness, summariness, suppleness, susceptibility, swiftness, tact, tactfulness, teachability, teachableness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, tempering, tendency, time to spare, timing, tractability, trainableness, trickiness, trim, tropism, turn, twist, ungrudgingness, unloathness, unreluctance, verve, very beginning, virtuosity, vitality, vivacity, volubility, wakefulness, wariness, warp, weakness, wiles, wiliness, willing ear, willing heart, willingness, wit, wizardry, workmanship, zeal, zealousness, zest, zestfulness

reading glass

• reading glass, achromatic lens, astigmatic lens, burning glass, camera, coated lens, concave lens, concavo-convex lens, condenser, convex lens, eyeglass, eyepiece, glass, hand lens, lens, magnifier, magnifying glass, meniscus, object glass, objective, objective prism, ocular, prism, reader, telephoto lens, toric lens, varifocal lens, zoom lens

reading matter

• reading matter, advance sheets, advertising matter, article, autograph, brainchild, composition, computer printout, copy, document, draft, edited version, engrossment, essay, fair copy, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, holograph, letter, letterpress, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, manuscript, matter, nonfiction, opus, original, paper, parchment, penscript, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, printed matter, printout, production, recension, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, text, the written word, transcript, transcription, typescript, version, work, writing

reading

• reading, CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, IF signal, IM display, RF echoes, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, application, barometer, beam, beat signal, bibliolatry, bibliomania, blips, bluestockingism, boning, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, bounces, brainwork, canon, chalk talk, check, classical scholarship, classicism, composite reading, conflation, conning, construction, contemplation, cram, cramming, criterion, critical edition, culture, debate, declamation, definition, degree, description, diagnosis, diatribe, diplomatic text, display, donnishness, double-dot display, drill, echo, echo signal, edited text, edition, engrossment, eruditeness, erudition, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, extensive study, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, gauge, graduated scale, grind, grinding, harangue, headwork, hortatory address, humanism, humanistic scholarship, inaugural, inaugural address, inspection, intellectualism, intellectuality, interpretation, invective, jeremiad, learnedness, lection, letters, literacy, local oscillator signal, lucubration, meaning, measure, mental labor, model, norm, normalized text, oration, output signal, parameter, pattern, pedantism, pedantry, pep talk, peroration, perusal, philippic, picture, pips, pitch, practice, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, quantity, radar signal, readout, recital, recitation, reflection, rendering, rendition, restudy, restudying, return, return signal, review, rule, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, scale, scholarly edition, scholarship, screed, set speech, signal, signal display, speech, speechification, speeching, spot, standard, study, studying, subject, swotting, talk, talkathon, target image, test, text, tirade, touchstone, trace, transmitter signal, type, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, value, variant, version, video signal, way of seeing, wide reading, yardstick

readout

• readout, Flexowriter typewriter, Teleplotter, alphabetical printer, barometer, canon, check, criterion, degree, digital graph plotter, gauge, graduated scale, hard copy, magnetic recorder, magnetic tape, measure, microcards, microfiche, microfilm, model, norm, oscillograph recorder, oscilloscope, parameter, pattern, printout, punch cards, punched tape, quantity, reader, reading, recorder, relay register, rule, scale, standard, tape reader, teletypewriter, test, touchstone, type, value, yardstick

ready made

• ready made, assembled, bespoke, bought, boughten, built, cast, constructed, crafted, created, custom, custom-built, custom-made, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, homemade, homespun, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, milled, mined, molded, prefab, prefabricated, processed, put together, raised, ready-built, ready-dressed, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-mixed, ready-prepared, ready-to-wear, refined, sartorial, shaped, smelted, store, store-bought, tailored, vestmental, well-built, well-constructed, well-made

ready

• ready, Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, about, accessible, accordant, acquiescent, active, acute, adaptable, adept, adjusted, adroit, affirmative, agape, agile, agog, agreeable, agreeing, alacritous, alert, alive, all agog, all ready, all set, all-around, amenable, animated, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, anxious, apprentice, approving, apt, apt to, arch, ardent, armed, armed and ready, arrange, artful, artistic, assenting, astute, at hand, attentive, authoritative, available, avid, awaiting, awake, booted and spurred, brace, bravura, break, break in, breathless, breed, briefed, bright, brilliant, bring up, bursting to, cagey, calculated to, canny, cash, certain, cheerful, clairvoyant, clean, clear for action, clear the decks, clever, close at hand, close to, coached, cobble, cocked, commission, compliable, compliant, condition, confident, consentient, consenting, content, convenient, cooperative, coordinated, cordial, crack, crackerjack, crafty, cultivate, cunning, cure, cute, daedal, darn, deceitful, decisive, deep, deep-laid, deft, deploy, designing, desirous, develop, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, discipline, dispatchful, disposed, disposed to, divinatory, do up, docile, doctor, dress, drill, dynamic, eager, educable, endorsing, enthusiastic, equip, equipped, excellent, exercise, expectant, expecting, expeditious, expert, facile, fain, familiarized, fancy, farseeing, farsighted, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, feline, fetch up, fit, fit out, fix, fix up, forearmed, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted, forestalling, forethoughted, forethoughtful, forewarned, form, formable, fortify, forward, foster, foxy, friendly, full of life, game, gaping, genial, get, get ready, given, given to, good, good and ready, goodish, graceful, gracious, groom, groomed, guileful, handy, happy, hopeful, house-train, housebreak, immediate, impatient, impressionable, improve, in anticipation, in arms, in battle array, in condition, in danger of, in expectation, in position, in readiness, in the mind, in the mood, in the saddle, inclined, inclined to, informed, ingenious, insidious, instant, instantaneous, instructable, intelligent, intuitive, inventive, keen, knowing, liable, liable to, lick into shape, likely, likely to, live, lively, loaded, loaded for bear, longsighted, looking for, looking forward to, make, make arrangements, make preparations, make ready, make up, malleable, marshal, masterful, masterly, mature, mend, minded, minded to, mobilize, mobilized, moldable, money, motivated, neat, nimble, no mean, not surprised, nothing loath, nurse, nurture, of all work, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job, on the mark, optimistic, organize, overhaul, panting, patch, patch up, pawky, perceptive, permissive, plan, planned, plastic, pliable, pliant, poised, politic, practice, prearrange, prearranged, precognitive, precognizant, predisposed, predisposed to, prep, prepare, prepared, prepared and ready, prepped, prescient, pretreat, primed, process, professional, proficient, prompt, prone, prone to, provide, provided, provident, providential, prudent, psyched up, punctual, put in commission, put in order, put in repair, put in shape, put in tune, put to school, qualified, qui vive, quick, quite some, raise, rapid, raring to, ratifying, ready and willing, ready for anything, ready to, ready up, rear, recap, receptive, recondition, rehearse, repair, resourceful, responsive, retread, ripe, ripe for instruction, sagacious, sanctioning, sanguine, scheming, schoolable, send to school, serpentine, service, set, set to rights, settle preliminaries, sew up, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skilled, skillful, sleepless, slick, slippery, sly, smart, smooth, snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical, speedy, spirited, spry, statesmanlike, stealthy, steel, strategic, strengthen, stylish, subject to, submissive, subtile, subtle, summary, supple, sure, susceptible, swift, tactful, tactical, take in hand, tan, teachable, the compleat, the complete, thirsty for knowledge, timely, tinker, tinker up, to hand, tractable, train, trainable, treat, trickish, tricksy, tricky, trim, try out, unblinking, ungrudging, unloath, unnodding, unrefusing, unreluctant, unsleeping, unsurprised, unwinking, up, up in arms, versatile, vigilant, virtuoso, vital, vivacious, vivid, vulpine, waiting, waiting for, wakeful, wary, watching for, well-disposed, well-done, well-inclined, well-prepared, wherewithal, wide-awake, willed, willing, willinghearted, wily, workmanlike, zealous, zestful

ready-made

• ready-made, adaptable, believable, convenient, conventional, credible, expedient, finished, hackneyed, handy, pedestrian, plausible, prefabricated, ready-to-wear, routine, run-of-the-mill, serviceable, stale, stereotyped, stock, suitable, trite, unoriginal, usable, useful

ready-to-wear

• ready-to-wear, assembled, bespoke, built, cast, constructed, crafted, created, custom, custom-built, custom-made, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, extracted, fabricated, fashioned, forged, formed, gathered, grown, handcrafted, handmade, harvested, homemade, homespun, machine-made, machined, made, made to order, man-made, manufactured, milled, mined, molded, prefab, prefabricated, processed, put together, raised, ready-built, ready-dressed, ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-mixed, ready-prepared, refined, sartorial, shaped, smelted, store-bought, tailored, vestmental, well-built, well-constructed, well-made

reagent

• reagent, acid, acidity, agent, alkali, alkalinity, alloisomer, anion, antacid, atom, base, biochemical, cation, chemical, chemical element, chromoisomer, compound, copolymer, dimer, element, heavy chemicals, high polymer, homopolymer, hydracid, inorganic chemical, ion, isomer, macromolecule, metamer, molecule, monomer, neutralizer, nonacid, organic chemical, oxyacid, polymer, pseudoisomer, radical, sulfacid, trimer

real estate

• real estate, acres, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, block, chattels real, clay, clod, clos, close, croft, crust, demesne, dirt, domain, dry land, dust, earth, enclave, field, forty, freehold, glebe, grassland, ground, grounds, honor, kraal, land, landed property, landholdings, lands, lithosphere, lot, lots, manor, marginal land, marl, messuage, mold, pale, parcel, parcel of land, patch, plat, plot, plot of ground, praedium, property, quad, quadrangle, quadrat, real property, realty, region, regolith, section, sod, soil, square, subaerial deposit, subsoil, tenements, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, toft, topsoil, tract, woodland

real property

• real property, acres, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, chattels real, clay, clod, crust, demesne, dirt, domain, dry land, dust, earth, freehold, glebe, grassland, ground, grounds, honor, land, landed property, landholdings, lands, lithosphere, lot, lots, manor, marginal land, marl, messuage, mold, parcel, plat, plot, praedium, property, quadrat, real estate, realty, region, regolith, sod, soil, subaerial deposit, subsoil, tenements, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, toft, topsoil, woodland

real

• real, Gaussian integer, absolute, actual, admitting no question, algebraic number, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, almighty, appreciable, ascertained, attested, authentic, authenticated, awfully, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, cardinal, cardinal number, categorically true, certain, certified, complex number, concrete, confirmable, confirmed, corporeal, corroborated, de facto, decimal, defective number, demonstrable, demonstratable, demonstrated, determined, differential, digital, dinkum, documentary, earnest, effectual, essential, established, even, even number, exceedingly, existent, exponential, factual, feodal, feudal, feudatory, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, finite number, following the letter, for real, fraction, fractional, genuine, good, heartfelt, historical, honest, honest-to-God, imaginary, imaginary number, impair, impossible, inappealable, inartificial, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, infinite, infinity, integer, integral, intrinsic, irrational, irrational number, irrefragable, irrefutable, just, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, lifelike, literal, logarithmic, logometric, loyal, manorial, material, mightily, mighty, mixed number, natural, naturalistic, negative, not in error, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, objectively true, odd, official, only too, ordinal, original, pair, palpable, physical, polygonal number, ponderable, positive, possible, powerful, powerfully, praedial, pretty, prime, prime number, proper, provable, proved, pure, pure imaginary, quite, radical, rational, rational number, real number, realistic, really, reciprocal, rectangular number, right, rightful, round number, seigneurial, seignioral, self-evident, sensible, serial number, simon-pure, simple, sincere, so, solid, sterling, submultiple, substantial, substantiated, substantive, surd, sure-enough, tangible, terribly, terrifically, testable, transcendental, transcendental number, transfinite number, true, true as gospel, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, trusted, trustworthy, truthful, unadulterated, unaffected, unanswerable, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, unconfutable, unconfuted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeniable, undenied, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, undoubted, unerroneous, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfallacious, unfalse, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, unimpeachable, uninvented, unlikely, unmistaken, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unquestionable, unrefutable, unrefuted, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, valid, validated, veracious, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verifiable, verified, verisimilar, veritable, very, whole number, word-for-word

realign

• realign, accommodate, adapt, adjust, align, alter, ameliorate, better, break up, change, collimate, collineate, convert, correspond, deform, denature, diversify, equate, equidistance, fit, follow, improve, line up, match, meliorate, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, overthrow, parallelize, place parallel to, qualify, re-create, rearrange, rebuild, reconstitute, reconstruct, redesign, redispose, redistribute, refit, reform, remake, renew, reorder, reorganize, reshape, restructure, revamp, revive, ring the changes, shake up, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, subvert, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, vary, work a change, worsen

realignment

• realignment, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, betterment, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, constructive change, continuity, conversion, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, fitting, flip-flop, gradual change, improvement, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, overthrow, qualification, radical change, re-creation, rearrangement, reconstitution, redesign, redisposition, redistribution, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reordering, reorganization, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, shake-up, shift, sudden change, switch, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, worsening

realism

• realism, Marxism, absolute realism, animalism, artlessness, atomism, authenticity, behaviorism, bona fideness, commonsense realism, dialectical materialism, down-to-earthness, earthiness, earthliness, empiricism, epiphenomenalism, freedom from illusion, genuineness, hardheadedness, health, historical materialism, honesty, hylomorphism, hylotheism, hylozoism, inartificiality, lack of feelings, legitimacy, lifelikeness, literalism, literality, literalness, materialism, matter-of-factness, mechanism, natural realism, naturalism, naturalness, naturism, new realism, normalcy, normality, normalness, order, photographic realism, physicalism, physicism, positive philosophy, positivism, practical-mindedness, practicality, practicalness, pragmaticism, pragmatism, propriety, rationality, realness, reasonableness, regularity, representative realism, saneness, scientism, secularism, sensibleness, sincerity, sober-mindedness, substantialism, temporality, true-to-lifeness, truth to nature, unadulteration, unaffectedness, unfictitiousness, unidealism, unromanticalness, unsentimentality, unspeciousness, unspuriousness, unsyntheticness, verisimilitude, wholesomeness, worldliness

realist

• realist, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic, animist, animistic, atomistic, commonsense, commonsense philosopher, cosmotheistic, dialectical materialist, down-to-earth, earthy, eclectic, empirical, epistemological realist, eudaemonistic, existential, hardheaded, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, hylomorphous, hylotheistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, materialist, materialistic, matter-of-fact, mechanist, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, natural realist, naturalist, naturalistic, nominalist, panlogistical, pantheistic, physicist, positivist, positivistic, practical, practical person, practical-minded, pragmatic, pragmatist, rational, rationalistic, realistic, reasonable, sane, scholastic, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensationalistic, sensible, sober-minded, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, unideal, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, worldly

realistic

• realistic, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic, animist, animistic, astute, atomistic, authentic, banausic, bona fide, breadwinning, breathing, businesslike, candid, card-carrying, characteristic, commercial, commonsense, cosmotheistic, delineative, depictive, descriptive, dinkum, distinctive, distinguishing, down-to-earth, earthy, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic, exemplary, existential, expositive, expressive, faithful, following the letter, general, genuine, good, graphic, hard, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, hardheaded, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, hoaxproof, honest, honest-to-God, humanist, humanistic, hylomorphous, hylotheistic, idealistic, inartificial, instrumentalist, lawful, legitimate, level-headed, lifelike, literal, living, materialist, materialistic, matter-of-fact, mechanist, mechanistic, metaphysical, moneymaking, monistic, natural, naturalist, naturalistic, naturistic, no-nonsense, nominalist, normal, not born yesterday, orderly, original, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, pragmatical, pragmatist, prosaic, prudent, pure, quintessential, rational, rationalistic, real, realist, reasonable, regular, representative, rightful, sample, sane, scholastic, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensationalistic, sensible, shrewd, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sober, sober-minded, sophisticated, sound, sound-thinking, speaking, sterling, straight-thinking, sure-enough, syncretistic, theistic, to the life, tough, tough-minded, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, true to form, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, true to type, typal, typic, typical, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, uncullible, undeceivable, undeludable, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, undupable, unexaggerated, unexceptional, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unfoolable, ungullible, unhoaxable, unideal, unidealistic, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unseduceable, unsentimental, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, usual, utilitarian, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, vitalistic, vivid, voluntarist, voluntaristic, well-drawn, wise, word-for-word, workaday, workday, working, worldly

reality

• reality, accomplished fact, actuality, adventure, authenticity, circumstance, confirmability, demonstratability, doubtlessness, entelechy, episode, eternal verities, event, experience, fact, factuality, fait accompli, genuineness, good sooth, grim reality, hap, happening, happenstance, historical truth, historicity, in reality, incident, incontestability, incontrovertibility, indisputability, indubitability, indubitableness, irrefragability, irrefutability, materiality, matter of fact, not a dream, objective existence, occasion, occurrence, particular, phenomenon, provability, questionlessness, really, sooth, the true, trueness, truth, truthfulness, turn of events, ultimate truth, unconfutability, undeniability, unerroneousness, unfallaciousness, unfalseness, unimpeachability, unquestionability, unrefutability, veracity, verifiability, verity, very truth

realizable

• realizable, achievable, actable, attainable, banausic, compassable, doable, effective, effectual, efficient, feasible, negotiable, operable, overcomable, performable, practicable, practical, pragmatic, superable, surmountable, viable, workable

realization

• realization, accident, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, actualization, alphabet, apparition, appearance, appearing, apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness, apprehension, arising, art, attainment, avatar, awareness, blueprint, bringing to fruition, carrying out, charactering, characterization, chart, choreography, closure, cognition, cognizance, coming, coming into being, coming to be, coming-forth, completion, comprehension, conception, consciousness, constitution, consummation, contingency, contingent, conventional representation, culmination, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, diagram, discharge, disclosure, dispatch, distinguishment, doing, drama, drawing, effectuation, emergence, epiphany, establishment, event, eventuality, eventuation, execution, exemplification, exposure, fait accompli, figuration, formation, forthcoming, foundation, fruition, fulfillment, hieroglyphic, iconography, identification, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, implementation, inauguration, incarnation, inception, incidence, insight, installation, institution, issuance, letter, limning, logogram, logograph, manifestation, map, materialization, materializing, mindfulness, mission accomplished, musical notation, noesis, notation, note, notice, occurrence, opening, operation, organization, overproduction, perception, perfection, performance, pictogram, picturization, plan, portraiture, portrayal, prefigurement, presentation, presentment, printing, production, productiveness, projection, recognition, reidentification, rendering, rendition, representation, revelation, rise, rising, schema, score, script, sensibility, setting-up, showing, showing forth, success, syllabary, symbol, tablature, theophany, topping-off, understanding, unfolding, unfoldment, writing

realize

• realize, absorb, accomplish, achieve, act, actualize, adumbrate, appreciate, apprehend, assimilate, attain, author, be acquainted with, be apprised of, be aware of, be cognizant of, be conscious of, be conversant with, be informed, be productive, be sold, be with one, bear, beget, body forth, breed, bring, bring about, bring forth, bring in, bring into being, bring off, bring to effect, bring to fruition, bring to pass, call to mind, call up, capitalize on, cash in on, catch, catch on, catch on to, cause, clean up, clear, cognize, coin money, commercialize, commit, compass, comprehend, conceive, conceptualize, conjure up, constitute, consummate, create, deal with, demonstrate, dig, digest, discern, discharge, dispatch, dispose of, distinguish, do, do the job, do the trick, do to, earn, effect, effectuate, embody, enact, engender, engineer, envisage, envision, establish, execute, exemplify, fancy, father, fathom, feature, fetch, figure, follow, foreshadow, form, found, fulfill, gain, gain by, generate, gestate, get, get hold of, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, go and do, grasp, gross, have, have information about, have it taped, have knowledge of, identify, illustrate, image, imagine, impersonate, inaugurate, incarnate, incept, industrialize, inflict, install, institute, just see, ken, knock off, know, know again, learn, make, make a killing, make money, make money by, make out, manage, mass-produce, master, materialize, mirror, nail, net, objectify, occasion, organize, originate, overproduce, pay, peg, perceive, perform, perpetrate, personate, personify, picture, place, polish off, possess, prefigure, prehend, pretypify, produce, profit, project, pull off, put away, reach, read, realize on, recall knowledge of, recognize, reflect, reidentify, render, represent, return, savvy, score, see, seize, seize the meaning, sell, sell for, sense, set afloat, set on foot, set up, shadow, shadow forth, sire, spot, succeed, summon up, take, take and do, take care of, take in, tell, turn a penny, turn the trick, turn to account, turn to profit, twig, understand, up and do, vision, visualize, volume-produce, win, work, work out, wot, wot of, wreak

realized

• realized, accomplished, achieved, appreciated, apprehended, ascertained, attained, compassed, comprehended, conceived, consummated, discerned, discharged, dispatched, disposed of, down pat, effected, effectuated, executed, fulfilled, grasped, implemented, known, pat, perceived, prehended, recognized, seized, set at rest, understood, wrought, wrought out

really

• really, OK, Roger, absolutely, actually, all right, almighty, alright, alrighty, amen, as you say, assuredly, at bottom, authentically, awfully, aye, by all means, categorically, certainly, clearly, da, de facto, decidedly, definitely, demonstrably, doubtlessly, easily, exactly, exceedingly, exceptionally, extraordinarily, extremely, factually, fine, for a certainty, for real, forsooth, genuinely, good, good enough, hear, historically, honestly, in actuality, in all conscience, in effect, in fact, in reality, in truth, in very sooth, indeed, indeedy, indubitably, ja, just, just so, legitimately, mais oui, manifestly, mightily, mighty, most assuredly, naturally, naturellement, nothing else but, noticeably, observably, obviously, of a truth, of course, okay, only too, oui, patently, positively, powerful, powerfully, precisely, pretty, quite, rather, real, really-truly, remarkably, right, righto, sensibly, seriously, so, sure, sure thing, surely, terribly, terrifically, to be sure, truly, unaffectedly, unambiguously, unassumedly, uncommonly, undeniably, undoubtedly, unmistakably, unquestionably, unusually, veridically, verily, veritably, very, very well, visibly, warts and all, well and good, why yes, with truth, without doubt, yea, yeah, yep, yes, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree

realm

• realm, ally, ambit, animal kingdom, archduchy, archdukedom, area, arena, bailiwick, beat, body politic, border, borderland, buffer state, captive nation, chain of being, chieftaincy, chieftainry, circle, circuit, city-state, class structure, colony, commonweal, commonwealth, compass, confines, country, county, demesne, department, dimensions, discipline, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, empery, empire, establishment, extent, field, free city, grand duchy, hemisphere, hierarchy, judicial circuit, jurisdiction, kingdom, land, limits, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, march, mineral kingdom, monarchy, nation, nationality, natural hierarchy, orb, orbit, pale, pecking order, polis, polity, possession, power, power structure, precinct, principality, principate, protectorate, province, puppet government, puppet regime, purview, pyramid, radius, reach, republic, responsibility, round, satellite, scope, seneschalty, settlement, sovereign nation, sphere, state, subdiscipline, sultanate, superpower, sweep, territory, toparchia, toparchy, vegetable kingdom, walk

Realpolitik

• Realpolitik, Machtpolitik, Tammany Hall, bossism, career politics, confrontation politics, consensus politics, economics in action, empirical politics, kid-glove politics, machine politics, partisan politics, partisanism, peanut politics, petty politics, politics, polity, pork-barrel politics, power politics, practical politics, pressure-group politics, reform politics, silk-stocking politics, ward politics

Realtor

• Realtor, bill broker, broker, cambist, cotton broker, diamond broker, discount broker, estate agent, furniture broker, grain broker, hotel broker, insurance broker, land broker, money broker, money changer, mortgage broker, note broker, pawnbroker, real estate agent, real estate broker, ship broker, stockbroker

realty

• realty, acres, chattels real, demesne, domain, grounds, honor, land, landed property, lands, lot, lots, manor, messuage, parcel, plat, plot, praedium, property, quadrat, real estate, real property, tenements, toft

ream

• ream, auger, bawl out, beat, bilk, bite, bore, broach, bugger, cardboard, chew, chew ass, chew out, chisel, countersink, cozen, cuss out, diddle, do, drill, empierce, fellate, fix, give a going-over, give hail Columbia, give hell, give the deuce, give what-for, gobs, gore, gouge, gouge out, gyp, heap, hole, honeycomb, impale, jack up, lambaste, lance, leaf, loads, mace, masturbate, needle, oodles, open up, page, paper, penetrate, perforate, pierce, pink, prick, punch, puncture, quantities, quire, ream ass, ream out, riddle, run through, screw, sheet, sit on, skewer, slew, sodomize, spear, spike, spit, stab, stationery, stick, tap, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, wads

reap

• reap, abbreviate, abridge, abstract, acquire, bag, be seized of, bob, boil down, bring in, capsulize, capture, catch, clip, come by, come in for, come into, compress, condense, contract, corral, crop, crop herbs, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, derive, dig, dock, drag down, draw, earn, elide, enter into possession, epitomize, foreshorten, gain, garner, gather, gather in, get, glean, grabble, harvest, hay, make, mow, net, nip, nut, obtain, pick, pluck, poll, pollard, procure, profit, prune, pull down, reap and carry, recap, recapitulate, reduce, retrench, sack, score, secure, shave, shear, shorten, snub, stunt, sum up, summarize, synopsize, take, take in, take up, telescope, trim, truncate, win

reaper

• reaper, Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, crofter, cropper, cultivator, dirt farmer, dry farmer, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, muzhik, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, raiser, rancher, ranchman, rustic, sharecropper, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, yeoman

reappear

• reappear, alternate, be here again, circle, come again, come and go, come around, come round, come round again, come up again, cycle, echo, go back, intermit, keep coming, oscillate, pulsate, pulse, recur, reoccur, repeat, resound, resume, return, reverberate, revert, revolve, roll around, rotate, turn, undulate, wheel, wheel around

reappearance

• reappearance, alternation, beat, cyclicalness, doubling, duplication, echo, imitation, intermittence, intermittency, meter, oscillation, pendulum motion, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, plagiarism, pulsation, quotation, rebirth, recurrence, redoubling, reduplication, reecho, regular wave motion, regurgitation, reincarnation, renewal, reoccurrence, repetition, reproduction, resumption, return, rhythm, seasonality, undulation

reappearing

• reappearing, Phoenixlike, continuous, cyclical, ever-recurring, frequent, haunting, incessant, periodic, re-creative, re-formative, reborn, recrudescent, recurrent, recurring, redivivus, regenerative, renascent, renewed, reorganizational, reproductive, restorative, resurgent, resurrected, returning, revenant, revisional, revived, thematic, thick-coming, ubiquitous

rear end

• rear end, afterpart, afterpiece, back, back door, back seat, back side, backside, behind, bottom, breech, butt, buttocks, croup, crupper, fanny, haunches, heel, hind end, hind part, hindhead, nates, occiput, posterior, postern, rear, rearward, reverse, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tailpiece

rear

• rear, aft, after, aftermost, apprentice, arena, arise, arse, ascend, ass, assemble, back, backdrop, background, backside, backward, behind, boost, bottom, break, break in, breed, bring up, bristle, build, bulk, bulk large, bum, buoy up, buss the clouds, butt, buttocks, care for, carve, cast, cast up, chisel, cock up, come up, compose, compound, concoct, condition, construct, convert, create, crop, croup, crupper, cultivate, culture, curl upwards, develop, devise, discipline, distance, drill, dryfarm, educate, elaborate, elevate, end, erect, escalate, evolve, exceed, exercise, extract, extrude, fabricate, fanny, farm, fashion, fatten, feed, fetch up, field, fit, flounder, form, formulate, foster, frame, fudge together, garden, get up, go up, groom, ground, grow, grow up, harvest, hatch, haunches, heave, heft, heighten, heist, hike, hind, hind end, hind part, hinder, hindermost, hindhand, hindmost, hindquarters, hinterland, hobbyhorse, hoick, hoist, hold up, house-train, housebreak, improve, indite, jerk up, jump up, keep, knock up, last, levitate, lick into shape, lift, lift up, lob, locale, loft, loom, loom large, lurch, machine, make, make heavy weather, make up, manufacture, mature, mill, mine, mise-en-scene, mold, mount, nates, nurse, nurture, outsoar, outstrip, overtop, patch together, perk up, pick up, piece together, pitch, pitch and toss, plunge, posterior, postern, pound, practice, prefabricate, prepare, process, produce, propagate, pump, put in tune, put to school, put together, put up, raise, raise aloft, raise up, ramp, ranch, ready, rear aloft, rear end, rear guard, rear up, rearmost, rearward, reel, refine, rehearse, retral, retrograde, rise, rise above, rise up, rock, roll, rump, run, run up, scend, scene, seat, send to school, set up, setting, shape, sharecrop, sit bolt upright, sit up, sky, smelt, soar, spiral, spire, stage, stage set, stage setting, stand on tiptoe, stand out, stand up, stand upright, stern, stick up, surge, swarm up, sway, sweep up, swing, tag end, tail, tail end, take in hand, take up, theater, throw up, toss, toss and tumble, tower, tower above, train, transcend, tumble, tush, tushy, up, upbuoy, upcast, upend, upgo, upgrow, upheave, uphoist, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, upright, uprise, upspin, upstream, upsurge, upswarm, upthrow, upwind, wallow, welter, whomp up, write, yaw

rearing

• rearing, anabatic, apotheosis, apprenticeship, ascendant, ascending, ascensional, ascensive, ascent, assumption, basic training, beatification, bolt upright, breaking, breeding, canonization, climbing, conditioning, cultivation, deification, development, discipline, downright, drill, drilling, elevation, enshrinement, erect, erecting, erection, escalation, exaltation, exercise, fetching-up, fostering, green thumb, grooming, growing, heaving up, height, housebreaking, improvement, in the ascendant, in-service training, leaping, lifting, lofting, manual training, military training, mounting, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, practice, preparation, raising, rampant, readying, rehearsal, rising, saltatory, scandent, scansorial, skyrocketing, sloyd, spiraling, springing, stand-up, standing on end, standing up, sursum corda, training, uparching, upbringing, upbuoying, upcast, upcoming, upended, upgoing, upgrade, upheaval, uphill, uphillward, uplift, uplifting, upping, upraised, upraising, upreared, uprearing, upright, uprising, upsloping, upstanding, upthrow, upthrust, upward, upwith, vertical, vocational education, vocational training

rearward

• rearward, a rebours, a reculons, aft, after, aftermost, afterpart, afterpiece, against the grain, anticlockwise, arear, ass-backwards, astern, away, back, back door, back seat, back side, backward, backwards, behind, breech, counterclockwise, fro, heel, hind, hind end, hind part, hinder, hindermost, hindhand, hindhead, hindmost, hindward, hindwards, in reverse, occiput, posterior, posteriorly, postern, rear, rear end, rearmost, rearwards, retrad, retrograde, reverse, stern, tail, tail end, tailpiece, tailward, tailwards, to the rear, widdershins

reason to believe

• reason to believe, basis for belief, body of evidence, chain of evidence, clue, data, datum, documentation, evidence, exhibit, fact, facts, grounds, grounds for belief, indication, item of evidence, manifestation, mark, material grounds, muniments, mute witness, piece of evidence, premises, proof, relevant fact, sign, symptom, token

reason

• reason, Vernunft, acceptable, accomplishment, account, admissibility, advise with, aim, air, allegorization, ambition, analyze, answer, antecedent, apologia, apology, apply reason, argument, argumentum, ascertainment, aspiration, balance, bargain, basis, because of, brain, brains, by reason of, by virtue of, calculate, call, call in, calling, canvass, case, cause, cerebrate, clarification, clearing up, cogitate, collect, collogue, comment upon, common sense, compare notes, conceive, conception, conceptualize, conclude, confer, confer with, cons, consider, consideration, consult, consult with, contact with reality, controvert, convince, cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, counsel, cracking, deal with, debate, decipherment, decoding, deduce, deduction, deductive reasoning, defence, deliberate, deliberate upon, demonstration, demythologization, denouement, derive, determinant, determination, discourse, discourse about, discourse of reason, discursive reason, discuss, discuss with, disentanglement, dissuade, draw a conclusion, draw an inference, due sense of, due to, editing, elenchus, elucidation, emendation, end, end result, enlightenment, entertain ideas, esprit, estimate, euhemerism, examine, exchange observations, exchange views, excuse, exegesis, exemplification, exercise the mind, explanation, explication, exposition, expounding, extract, fetch, figure out, find, finding, finding-out, fitting, form ideas, foundation, gather, generalize, glean, go into, goal, good reason, good sense, gray matter, ground, grounds, guiding light, guiding star, handle, have conversations, head, headpiece, healthy mind, hold conference, horse sense, hypothesize, ideal, ideate, ignoratio elenchi, illumination, illustration, induce, induction, inductive reasoning, infer, inference, insight, inspiration, intellect, intellection, intellectual faculty, intellectualize, intelligence, intention, interpretation, investigate, issue, judgement, justifiability, justifiable, justification, justness, knock around, level head, levelheadedness, light, lodestar, logic, logical thought, logicality, logicalize, logicalness, logicize, lucid interval, lucidity, mainspring, marbles, material basis, matter, mens, mental balance, mental capacity, mental equilibrium, mental health, mental hygiene, mental poise, mentality, mind, motive, negotiate, normalcy, normality, normalness, nous, object, objective, occasion, on account of, outcome, owing to, palaver, parley, pass under review, percipience, perspicacity, persuade, philosophize, philosophy, plaidoyer, plain sense, plausibility, plea, plead with, pleading, point, power of reason, powwow, practical mind, practical wisdom, practicality, pretense, pretext, prevail upon, principle, proof, proper, pros, pros and cons, provide a rationale, psyche, purpose, put heads together, rap, ratio, ratiocination, rational, rational ground, rationale, rationalism, rationality, rationalization, rationalize, rationalizing, reason about, reason for, reason that, reason the point, reason why, reason with, reasonability, reasonable, reasonableness, reasoning, reasoning faculty, reckon, refer to, reflect, refutation, resolution, resolving, result, review, riddling, right, right mind, sake, sanemindedness, saneness, sanity, score, sense, senses, sensible, sensibleness, sift, simplification, sit down together, sit down with, smarts, sober senses, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobriety, solution, solving, sophistry, sorting out, sound mind, sound sense, soundness, soundness of mind, source, special pleading, specious reasoning, speculate, spring, stated cause, study, substance, sweet reason, syllogize, take as proved, take counsel, take up, take up with, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, talking point, the big idea, the idea, the whatfor, the wherefore, the why, theorize, think, thresh out, treat, ulterior motive, underlying reason, understanding, unlocking, unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, urge, use reason, ventilate, vindication, vocation, warrant, wherefore, wholesomeness, why, whyfor, wit, work out, working, working-out

reasonable

• reasonable, acceptable, admissible, all there, allowable, apparent, appropriate, arguable, balanced, believable, bright, budget, cheap, clearheaded, clearminded, cogent, commonsense, compos mentis, conceivable, conceptive, conceptual, condonable, consequent, conservative, controlled, cool, coolheaded, credible, defensible, discreet, discursive, dispensable, down-to-earth, earthy, easy, economic, economical, economy, equitable, excusable, exemptible, expiable, fair, forgivable, frugal, hardheaded, healthy-minded, ideational, inexpensive, inoffensive, intellectual, intelligent, judicious, just, justifiable, knowing, legitimate, levelheaded, logical, low, low-priced, lucid, manageable, matter-of-fact, mentally sound, moderate, modest, noetic, nominal, normal, not so dumb, of sound mind, pardonable, philosophical, plausible, popular, positivistic, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, proper, rational, realist, realistic, reasoned, remissible, restrained, right, sane, sane-minded, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensible, shabby, shoddy, sober, sober-minded, sophic, sound, sound-minded, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, strong-minded, suitable, temperate, tenable, thinking, together, token, tolerable, understanding, unexcessive, unexpensive, unextravagant, unextreme, unideal, unidealistic, unobjectionable, unromantic, unsentimental, venial, vindicable, warrantable, well-argued, well-balanced, well-founded, well-grounded, well-thought-out, wholesome, wise, within means, within reason, worldly, worth the money

reasonably

• reasonably, analytically, artfully, astutely, at a bargain, at a sacrifice, at budget prices, at cost, at cost price, at piggy-bank prices, at prime cost, at reduced rates, at small cost, at wholesale, cheap, cheaply, circumspectly, cleverly, considerately, cunningly, discerningly, discreetly, for a song, for pennies, in all conscience, in all reason, in reason, inexpensively, intelligently, judiciously, knowingly, logically, moderately, nominally, on the cheap, providently, prudently, rationally, sagaciously, sanely, sensibly, shrewdly, smartly, soundly, syllogistically, thoughtfully, understandingly, wholesale, wisely, within bounds, within reason, within reasonable limitations

reasoning

• reasoning, Vernunft, abstract thought, act of thought, analysis, analytic, arguments, brain, brains, brainwork, cerebral, cerebration, cogitation, conceit, conception, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualization, creative thought, discourse of reason, discursive reason, endopsychic, esprit, excogitation, explanation, explication, gray matter, head, headpiece, headwork, heavy thinking, hypothesis, idea, ideation, imageless thought, intellect, intellection, intellectual, intellectual exercise, intellectual faculty, intellectualization, intelligence, intelligent, internal, logic, mens, mental, mental act, mental capacity, mental labor, mental process, mentality, mentation, mind, noesis, noetic, noological, nous, phrenic, postulate, power of reason, premises, psyche, psychic, psychologic, ratio, ratiocination, ratiocinative, ratiocinatory, rational, rationale, rationality, rationalization, reason, reasoning faculty, reasons, smarts, spiritual, straight thinking, subjective, theory, thinking, thinking aloud, thinking out, thought, understanding

reasonless

• reasonless, abnormal, absonant, arbitrary, batty, bedlamite, bereft of reason, brainless, brainsick, capricious, careless, contradictory, contrary to reason, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, distraught, fallacious, faulty, flawed, flighty, foolish, hallucinated, headless, heedless, ignorant, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, illogical, impolitic, imprudent, inadvertent, inadvisable, inauthentic, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderate, inconsistent, indiscreet, inept, inexpedient, injudicious, insane, insensate, invalid, irrational, lackbrained, lean-minded, lean-witted, loco, loose, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mindless, misadvised, misguided, moon-struck, myopic, non compos, non compos mentis, nonrational, nonscientific, not all there, not bright, not following, not right, odd, of little brain, of unsound mind, off, paralogical, pea-brained, pin-brained, psycho, queer, reckless, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, shortsighted, sick, slackminded, slackwitted, sophistic, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, thoughtless, touched, unadvised, unauthentic, unbalanced, uncalculating, unconnected, unconsidered, undiscerning, unforeseeing, ungifted, unguarded, unhinged, unintellectual, unintelligent, unphilosophical, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unsane, unscientific, unseeing, unsensible, unsettled, unsound, untalented, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, wandering, without reason, witless

reassurance

• reassurance, aid and comfort, ascertainment, assurance, certification, check, checking, collation, comfort, condolence, confirmation, consolation, determination, easement, emboldening, encouragement, ensuring, establishment, heartening, inspiration, inspiriting, inspiritment, reassurement, relief, shred of comfort, solace, solacement, substantiation, support, sympathy, validation, verification

reassure

• reassure, afford hope, ascertain, assure, augur well, bear up, bid fair, bolster, brace, brace up, buck up, buoy up, certify, cheer, cinch, clear up, clinch, comfort, condole with, console, decide, determine, dismiss all doubt, ease, embolden, encourage, ensure, establish, find out, fix, get at, give comfort, give hope, have good prospects, hearten, hold out hope, hold out promise, inspire, inspire hope, inspirit, insure, justify hope, make certain, make fair promise, make no doubt, make no mistake, make sure, make sure of, nail down, nerve, promise, put at ease, raise expectations, raise hope, relieve, remove all doubt, see that, see to it, set at ease, set at rest, settle, solace, sort out, support, sympathize with, uplift

reassuring

• reassuring, assuring, auspicious, bright with promise, cheering, comforting, condolatory, condolent, condoling, consolatory, consoling, encouraging, favorable, full of promise, heartening, hospitable, inspiring, inspiriting, looking up, of good comfort, of promise, pregnant of good, promising, propitious, relieving, supportive, sympathetic

reasty

• reasty, bad, bad-smelling, fecal, fetid, foul, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, graveolent, high, ill-smelling, malodorous, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, moldy, musty, nidorous, noisome, noxious, odorous, offensive, olid, putrid, rancid, rank, reasy, reechy, reeking, reeky, repulsive, rotten, smellful, smelling, smelly, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, vile

rebarbative

• rebarbative, abhorrent, abominable, bad, barfy, base, beastly, below contempt, beneath contempt, brackish, cloying, contemptible, crude, despicable, detestable, disgusting, execrable, fetid, forbidding, foul, fulsome, gross, hateful, heinous, high, icky, ignoble, loathsome, maggoty, malodorous, mawkish, mephitic, miasmal, miasmic, nasty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, overripe, poisonous, rancid, rank, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sickening, spoiled, stinking, vile, vomity, weevily, yucky

rebate

• rebate, abate, abatement, agio, allow, allowance, bank discount, bate, breakage, bribe, cash discount, chain discount, charge off, charge-off, commission, concession, cut, deduct, deduction, depreciate, depreciation, diminish, discount, drain, drawback, graft, kick back, kickback, make allowance, mark down, payola, penalty, penalty clause, percentage, premium, price reduction, price-cut, rake-off, rebatement, reduce, reduction, refund, repay, repayment, rollback, salvage, setoff, subtraction, take a premium, take off, taper off, tare, time discount, trade discount, tret, underselling, write off, write-off

rebel

• rebel, Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Communist, Cong, Fenian, Guevarist, Jacobin, Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, adversary, agitator, anarch, anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, antagonist, antinomian, apostate, arise, assailant, attacker, bellyacher, bonnet rouge, brawler, breakaway, challenge, complainant, complainer, crab, crank, criminal syndicalist, croaker, dare, debunker, defy, disobey, dissent, dissenter, extreme, extremist, extremistic, factious, faultfinder, flout, frondeur, griper, grouch, grouser, growler, grumbler, heretic, iconoclast, insubordinate, insurge, insurgent, insurrect, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, kicker, kvetch, malcontent, maverick, mount the barricades, murmurer, mutineer, mutineering, mutinous, mutiny, mutterer, nihilist, nonconformist, opponent, overthrow, querulous person, radical, reactionary, reactionist, rebellious, recusant, red, reluct, reluctate, resistance fighter, resister, revolt, revolter, revolute, revolution, revolutional, revolutionary, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionize, revolutionizer, riot, rioter, riotous, rise, rise against, rise up, run riot, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, schismatic, seditionary, seditious, sorehead, strike, subversive, subvert, syndicalist, terrorist, traitor, traitorous, treasonable, turbulent, ultraist, whiner

rebellion

• rebellion, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy, antinomianism, chaos, civil disorder, confusion, contumacy, criminal syndicalism, defiance, disobedience, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disruption, emeute, general uprising, insubordination, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, jacquerie, levee en masse, lynch law, misrule, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, mutiny, nihilism, ochlocracy, outbreak, peasant revolt, primal chaos, putsch, rebelliousness, resistance, revolt, revolution, riot, rising, syndicalism, tohubohu, turmoil, unruliness, uprising

rebellious

• rebellious, alienated, beefing, bellyaching, bitching, breakaway, complaining, complaintful, contumacious, crabbing, crabby, cranky, croaking, defiant, difficult, disaffected, disappointed, discontented, disgruntled, disobedient, displeased, disputatious, disputing, dissatisfied, dissentient, dissenting, envious, estranged, extreme, extremistic, factious, faultfinding, fractious, griping, grouchy, grousing, growling, grumbling, incorrigible, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, malcontent, malcontented, murmuring, mutineering, mutinous, muttering, noncooperative, objecting, obstinate, obstructive, on the barricades, out of humor, peevish, petulant, proof against, protesting, querulant, querulous, rebel, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, repellent, resentful, resistant, resisting, resistive, restive, restless, retardant, retardative, revolutional, revolutionary, riotous, seditionary, seditious, stubborn, subversive, sulky, traitorous, treasonable, turbulent, unaccepting, unaccommodating, uncooperative, uneasy, unfulfilled, ungovernable, ungratified, unhappy, unmanageable, unruly, unsatisfied, unsubmissive, unyielding, up in arms, whiny, withstanding

rebirth

• rebirth, adoption, amendment, change of allegiance, change of heart, change of mind, circumcision, conversion, copy, doubling, duplication, echo, imitation, improvement, metempsychosis, new beginning, new birth, new life, palingenesis, palingenesy, plagiarism, quotation, re-creation, re-formation, reanimation, reappearance, rebuilding, reclamation, reconstitution, reconstruction, recrudescence, recurrence, redeemedness, redemption, redesign, redoing, redoubling, reduplication, reecho, reedition, reestablishment, refashioning, reform, reformation, refreshment, regeneracy, regenerateness, regeneration, regenesis, regurgitation, reincarnation, reinstitution, reissue, rejuvenation, rejuvenescence, remaking, renaissance, renascence, renewal, renovation, reoccurrence, reorganization, repetition, reprinting, reproduction, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, resumption, resurgence, resurrection, resuscitation, return, revision, revitalization, revival, revivescence, revivescency, revivification, salvation, second birth, second wind, second youth, spiritual purification

reborn

• reborn, assimilated, born again, changed, circumcised, converted, justified, naturalized, reappearing, recrudescent, redeemed, redivivus, reformed, regenerate, regenerated, renascent, renewed, resurgent, resurrected, revived, sanctified, saved, spiritually purified, transformed

rebound

• rebound, adaptability, backfire, backlash, backlashing, be reflected, be sent back, boom, boomerang, booming, bounce, bounce back, bounciness, bound, bound back, buoyance, buoyancy, cannon, cannon off, carom, comeback, contrecoup, echo, echo back, elasticity, extensibility, flexibility, fly back, give, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling, have repercussions, kick, kick back, kickback, lash back, liveliness, reboation, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil, reecho, reflex, repercuss, repercussion, repulse, resile, resilience, resiliency, resound, resounding, responsiveness, return, reverberate, reverberation, ricochet, roll, rumble, rumbling, send back, snap, snap back, sound, spring, spring back, springiness, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, thunder, thundering, tone, tonicity, tonus

rebuff

• rebuff, abjuration, abjure, abjurement, backfire, backlash, backlashing, bafflement, balk, be proof against, bear up, bear up against, beat back, beat off, block, boomerang, bounce, bound, brush, brush aside, brush off, brush-off, carom, challenge, chase, chase away, chase off, check, checkmate, chuck, chuck out, chucking, chucking out, cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, combative reaction, complaint, confusion, contemn, contempt, contradict, contradiction, contrecoup, counter, counteraction, cut, cut direct, declination, decline, declining, defeat, defiance, defy, demur, denial, deny, despisal, despise, despising, disapproval, disapprove, discard, disclaim, disclamation, discomfiture, discount, discounting, discouragement, disdain, dismiss, dismissal, disown, disownment, dispute, disregard, dissent, dissentience, drive away, drive back, endure, except, exception, exclude, exclusion, fend, fend off, flat refusal, foil, forswear, fractiousness, frustration, high-hat, hinder, hold at bay, hold off, hold out, hold up, humiliation, ignore, ignoring, keep at bay, keep off, kick, kickback, negativism, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonconsideration, noncooperation, not receive, objection, obstinacy, obstruct, opposition, pack off, parry, pass by, pass up, passing by, passive resistance, point-blank refusal, protest, push aside, push back, put back, put-down, putting away, putting out, reaction, rebound, rebut, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, recant, recantation, recoil, refractoriness, refusal, refuse, refuse to consider, refuse to receive, reject, rejection, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, renounce, renouncement, repel, repellence, repellency, repercussion, repudiate, repudiation, repulse, repulsion, resilience, resist, resistance, reversal, reverse, revolt, ricochet, rout, scout, scouting, send away, send off, send packing, setback, short shrift, shove away, slight, sneer, sniff, snort, snub, spring, spurn, spurning, stand, stand up, stave off, stop, summary negative, the cold shoulder, the go-by, throw away, throw out, throwing out, thrust back, turn aside, turn away, turn away from, turn back, turn out, turning out, uncooperativeness, upstage, waive, ward off, withstand, withstanding

rebuild

• rebuild, accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, ameliorate, better, break up, change, convert, copy, deform, denature, diversify, do over, do up, doctor, duplicate, fit, fix, improve, make over, meliorate, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, overhaul, overthrow, patch, qualify, re-create, re-form, realign, reassemble, recondition, reconstitute, reconstruct, redesign, redo, reestablish, refabricate, refashion, refit, reform, refound, regenerate, reinstitute, reissue, remake, remodel, renew, renovate, reorganize, repair, repeat, reprint, reproduce, reshape, restore, restructure, resurrect, revamp, revise, revive, ring the changes, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, subvert, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, vary, work a change, worsen

rebuilding

• rebuilding, copy, duplication, imitation, palingenesis, re-creation, re-formation, reassembling, reassembly, rebirth, reconstitution, reconstruction, redesign, redoing, reedition, reestablishment, refabrication, refashioning, regeneration, regenesis, reinstitution, reissue, remaking, remodeling, renascence, renovation, reorganization, repetition, reprinting, reproduction, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, resurrection, revision, revival

rebuilt

• rebuilt, altered, better, changeable, changed, converted, degenerate, deviant, divergent, improved, metamorphosed, metastasized, modified, mutant, qualified, reformed, renewed, revived, revolutionary, subversive, transformed, translated, transmuted, unmitigated, worse

rebuke

• rebuke, admonish, admonishment, admonition, bawl out, berate, berating, blowing up, bring to book, call down, call to account, carpet, castigate, castigation, censure, chastise, chastisement, chew out, chide, chiding, correct, correction, criticism, criticize, dress down, dressing down, dressing-down, earful, have words with, hell, lecture, lesson, objurgate, objurgation, rap, rate, rating, reprehend, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reproval, reprove, revile, revilement, scold, scolding, sermon, set down, set straight, spank, spanking, straighten out, take down, take to task, talking-to, tick, tongue-lashing, upbraid, upbraiding, what for, wig

rebut

• rebut, advocate, allege in support, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, argue for, assert, be contrary to, belie, blow sky-high, break, call into question, challenge, champion, confound, confute, contend for, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, countercharge, counterclaim, cross, crush, defeat, defend, demolish, deny, destroy, devastate, disconfirm, discredit, dismiss, dispose of, disprove, espouse, evert, expose, finish, floor, gainsay, hold off, invalidate, keep off, maintain, make a plea, make a rebuttal, negate, nonplus, oppugn, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, parry, plead for, puncture, put to silence, rebuff, reduce to silence, refute, reject, rejoin, repel, reply, repulse, respond, riposte, ruin, say in defense, settle, shoot down, shut up, silence, smash all opposition, speak for, speak up for, squash, squelch, stand up for, stave off, stick up for, subvert, support, surrebut, surrejoin, sustain, traverse, undermine, uphold, upset, urge reasons for, ward off

rebuttal

• rebuttal, answer, argument, bucking, challenge, comeback, complete answer, confounding, confutation, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contraremonstrance, contravention, contraversion, controversion, counteraccusation, counteraction, counterblast, countercharge, counterclaim, counterreply, counterstatement, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, defense, demolition, demurrer, denial, discrediting, effective rejoinder, exception, head wind, impugnation, impugnment, negation, objection, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, overthrow, overthrowal, plea, pleading, pleadings, rebutment, rebutter, refusal, refutal, refutation, rejection, rejoinder, replication, reply, resistance, response, retaliation, retort, riposte, special demurrer, special pleading, squelch, standing against, statement of defense, subversion, surrebuttal, surrebutter, surrejoinder, traversal, undercurrent, undermining, upset, upsetting

recalcitrance

• recalcitrance, antagonism, antipathy, averseness, aversion, backlash, backwardness, bad blood, challenge, clashing, collision, combative reaction, competition, complaint, conflict, confutation, contempt, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, contumaciousness, contumacy, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, cross-purposes, crotchetiness, cursoriness, defiance, defiance of authority, demur, despite, deviation, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, disinclination, disobedience, dispute, disrelish, dissension, dissent, dissentience, distaste, enmity, foot-dragging, fractiousness, friction, grudging consent, grudgingness, hostility, inaccordance, incongruity, inconsistency, incorrigibility, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, indomitability, inimicalness, insuppressibility, interference, intractability, intractableness, irrepressibility, kick, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, mutinousness, negativeness, negativism, nolition, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobservance, objection, obstinacy, obstreperousness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, originality, orneriness, passive resistance, perfunctoriness, perverseness, protest, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, recoil, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repercussion, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, resistance, restiveness, revolt, rivalry, shrewishness, slowness, stand, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, swimming upstream, unconformity, uncontrollability, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, ungovernability, unmalleability, unmanageability, unmoldableness, unruliness, unsubmissiveness, untamableness, unwillingness, vying, wildness, withstanding

recalcitrant

• recalcitrant, adamant, adversary, adversative, adverse, alien, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, at odds, averse, beyond control, bouncing, bounding, breachy, breakaway, clashing, competitive, complaining, con, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, contrary, contumacious, counter, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, cranky, cross, crotchety, cursory, defiant, deviant, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, disinclined, disobedient, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, enemy, firm, forced, fractious, headstrong, hostile, immovable, impatient of control, incorrigible, indisposed, indocile, indomitable, inflexible, inimical, insubordinate, insuppressible, intractable, involuntary, irrepressible, mutinous, negative, nonconformable, nonconforming, nonconformist, noncooperative, nonobservant, objecting, obstinate, obstreperous, obstructive, on the barricades, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, ornery, out of hand, overthwart, perfunctory, perverse, proof against, protesting, reactionary, reactionist, rebellious, rebounding, recoiling, recusant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, repellent, repercussive, repugnant, resilient, resistant, resisting, resistive, restive, retardant, retardative, revolutionary, rival, shrewish, springing, stiff, stubborn, sulky, sullen, unadaptable, unadjustable, unbending, unbiddable, uncompliant, unconforming, unconsenting, uncontrollable, uncooperative, undisciplined, unfavorable, unfriendly, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unpropitious, unruly, unsubmissive, untoward, unwilling, unyielding, up in arms, wayward, wild, withstanding

recall

• recall, abolish, abolishment, abolition, abrogate, abrogation, anamnesis, annul, annulment, arouse, awaken, bid come, bring back, bring to mind, bring to recollection, call, call away, call back, call for, call forth, call in, call out, call to mind, call together, call up, cancel, canceling, cancellation, carry back, cassation, cite, commitment to memory, conjure, conjure up, constitutional referendum, convene, convoke, countermand, counterorder, defeasance, demand, denial, deny, direct initiative, disannul, disavow, disavowal, disown, do away with, educe, elicit, evoke, exercise of memory, extract, facultative referendum, flashback, forswear, give a hint, give the cue, go back, go back over, hark back, hindsight, hold the promptbook, indent, indirect initiative, initiative, invalidate, invalidation, invoke, jog the memory, learning by heart, look back, looking back, make void, mandate, mandatory referendum, memoir, memorization, memorizing, memory, mind, muster, muster up, nag, nudge, nullification, nullify, order up, override, overrule, page, palinode, plebiscite, plebiscitum, preconize, prompt, prompt the mind, put in mind, put in remembrance, recall to mind, recalling, recant, recantation, recapture, recollect, recollecting, recollection, reconsideration, reevoke, referendum, reflect, reflection, remember, remembering, remembrance, remind, remind one of, reminisce, reminiscence, renege, repeal, requisition, rescind, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retain, retrace, retract, retraction, retrospect, retrospection, return, reversal, reverse, review, review in retrospect, revive, revocation, revoke, revokement, rote, rote memory, rouse, see in retrospect, send after, send for, serve, set aside, setting aside, statutory referendum, stir, study, subpoena, suggest, summon, summon forth, summon up, summons, suspend, suspension, take, take back, think back, think of, use hindsight, vacate, vacation, vacatur, void, voidance, voiding, waive, waiver, waiving, waken, withdraw, withdrawal, write off, write-off

recant

• recant, abandon, abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, assert the contrary, back down, back out, backwater, belie, brush aside, cancel, cede, chuck, chuck out, climb down, contemn, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, countermand, counterorder, crawfish out, cross, decline, deny, despise, disaffirm, disallow, disannul, disapprove, disavow, discard, disclaim, discount, disdain, disgorge, dismiss, disown, dispense with, dispose of, disprove, dispute, disregard, do away with, do without, drop, dump, eat crow, eat humble pie, except, exclude, forgo, forsake, forswear, gainsay, get along without, get rid of, give away, give up, have done with, ignore, impugn, invalidate, join issue upon, kiss good-bye, make a sacrifice, make void, not accept, not admit, nullify, oppose, override, overrule, part with, pass by, pass up, push aside, quitclaim, rebuff, recall, refuse, refuse to admit, refuse to consider, refute, reject, relinquish, render up, renege, renounce, repeal, repel, repudiate, repulse, rescind, resign, retract, reverse, revoke, sacrifice, scout, set aside, shove away, spare, spurn, surrender, suspend, swallow, swear off, take back, take issue with, throw away, throw out, throw up, turn away, turn out, unsay, vacate, void, waive, withdraw, write off, yield

recantation

• recantation, abandonment, abjuration, abjurement, abnegation, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, absolute contradiction, annulment, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cassation, cession, chucking, chucking out, contempt, contradiction, contrary assertion, contravention, controversion, countering, countermand, counterorder, crossing, declension, declination, declinature, declining, defeasance, denial, deprivation, despisal, despising, disaffirmation, disagreement, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, discounting, dismissal, disobedience, disowning, disownment, dispensation, disposal, disposition, disproof, disregard, dissent, dumping, exception, exclusion, expatriation, forgoing, forswearing, gainsaying, getting rid of, giving up, holding back, ignoring, impugnment, invalidation, letting go, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, nonacceptance, nonapproval, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonconsideration, nonobservance, nullification, palinode, palinody, passing by, putting away, putting out, rebuff, recall, refusal, refutation, rejection, release, relinquishment, renege, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repeal, repudiation, repulse, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, resignation, retention, retractation, retraction, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, riddance, sacrifice, scouting, setting aside, spurning, surrender, suspension, swearing off, throwing out, thumbs-down, turndown, turning out, unsaying, unwillingness, vacation, vacatur, voidance, voiding, waiver, waiving, withdrawal, withholding, write-off, yielding

recap

• recap, abbreviate, abbreviation, abridge, abridgment, abstract, add up, apocope, bob, boil down, capsulize, cast up, cipher up, clip, cobble, commission, compress, compression, condensation, condense, condition, conspectus, contract, copy, core, count up, critique, crop, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, darn, detail, do up, dock, doctor, dwelling upon, elaboration, elide, elision, ellipsis, epitome, epitomize, essence, figure up, fix, fix up, foot up, foreshorten, foreshortening, gist, going over, inventory, itemize, iteration, main point, meat, mend, mow, nip, overhaul, patch, patch up, pith, poll, pollard, practicing, precis, prune, put in commission, put in order, put in repair, put in shape, re-cover, ready, reaffirmation, reap, recapitulate, recapitulation, recital, recite, reckon up, recondition, recount, recountal, recounting, reduce, reduction, rehash, rehearsal, rehearse, reissue, reiteration, relate, repair, reprint, restatement, resume, retelling, retread, retrench, retrenchment, reupholster, review, run-through, rundown, score up, service, set to rights, sew up, shave, shear, shorten, shortening, snub, stunt, substance, sum, sum and substance, sum up, summarize, summary, summate, summation, summing up, syncope, synopsis, synopsize, take in, tally up, telescope, telescoping, tinker, tinker up, tot up, total, total up, tote up, trim, truncate, truncation

recapitulate

• recapitulate, abbreviate, abridge, abstract, add up, battologize, bob, boil down, capsulize, cast up, cipher up, clip, compress, condense, contract, count up, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut off short, cut short, detail, dock, elide, enumerate, epitomize, figure up, fill, foot up, foreshorten, give an encore, go over, go through, inventory, itemize, iterate, list, mow, nip, pad, poll, pollard, practice, prune, reaffirm, reap, reassert, recap, recite, reckon up, recount, reduce, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, relate, repeat, reprint, restate, resume, retail, retell, retrench, review, reword, run over, say over, say over again, score up, shave, shear, shorten, snub, stunt, sum, sum up, summarize, summate, synopsize, take in, tally up, tautologize, telescope, tot up, total, total up, tote up, trim, truncate

recapitulation

• recapitulation, abbreviation, abridgment, abstract, account, accounts, apocope, body count, capitulation, census, compression, condensation, conspectus, copy, core, count, critique, curtailment, dwelling upon, elaboration, elision, ellipsis, epitome, essence, foreshortening, gist, going over, head count, inventory, iteration, main point, meat, nose count, pith, practicing, precis, reaffirmation, recap, recital, reckoning, recount, recountal, recounting, reduction, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, repertory, reprint, restatement, resume, retelling, retrenchment, review, run-through, rundown, shortening, statement, substance, sum, sum and substance, summary, summation, summing, summing up, syncope, synopsis, telescoping, truncation

recapture

• recapture, bring back, bring to mind, call back, call to mind, call up, conjure up, evoke, get back, go back, go back over, hark back, look back, mind, ransom, recall, recall to mind, reclaim, reclaiming, reclamation, recollect, recoup, recoupment, recover, recovery, recuperate, recuperation, redeem, redemption, reevoke, reflect, regain, regainment, remember, renovate, reoccupation, reoccupy, replevin, replevy, repossess, repossession, restoration, restore, resume, resumption, retake, retaking, retrace, retrieval, retrieve, retrospect, review, review in retrospect, revindicate, revindication, revival, revive, salvage, see in retrospect, summon up, take back, think back, think of, trover, use hindsight

recede

• recede, abate, back, back up, backslide, bate, close, cock, decline, depart, die away, diminish, drain, drift away, dwindle, ebb, fade, fade away, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, get behind, go, go away, go backwards, go behind, jerk back, lapse, lessen, lose ground, move away, move off, pull away, pull back, recidivate, regress, relapse, retire, retract, retreat, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrogress, return, revert, shrink, sink, slip back, stand off, subside, taper, wane, widen the distance, withdraw

receding

• receding, declining, diminishing, dwindling, dying, ebbing, fading, recedence, recession, retirement, retiring, retractation, retractility, retraction, retreat, retreating, retrocedence, shrinking, sinking, waning, withdrawal

receipt

• receipt, acceptance, acknowledge receipt of, acknowledgment, acquire, acquisition, acquittance, admission, admittance, aid, alterative, analeptic, answer, answering, antiphon, arrival, assistance, assumption, avails, back answer, back talk, backchat, balm, balsam, box office, canceled check, comeback, commissions, corrective, counterfoil, credit, credits, cure, delivery, derivation, discharge, disposable income, dividend, dividends, earned income, earnings, echo, evasive reply, form, formula, formulary, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, getting, gross, gross income, gross receipts, healing agent, healing quality, help, income, intake, make, mark paid, net, net income, net receipts, output, prescription, proceeds, produce, profits, quittance, reaction, ready reply, receipt in full, receipts, receivables, receival, receive, receiving, reception, recipe, refuge, rejoinder, release, relief, remedial measure, remedy, repartee, replication, reply, repost, rescript, rescription, respondence, response, responsion, responsory, restorative, retort, return, returns, revenue, reverberation, riposte, royalties, short answer, snappy comeback, sovereign remedy, specific, specific remedy, stub, succor, take, take-in, taking, taking in, takings, ticket, unearned income, voucher, warrant, welcome, welcoming, witty reply, witty retort, yes-and-no answer, yield

receipts

• receipts, accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable, assets, budget, budgeting, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, costing-out, dividends, earnings, expenditures, filthy lucre, gain, gains, get, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross profit, hoard, income, interest, killing, liabilities, lucre, makings, neat profit, net, net profit, outstanding accounts, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, proceeds, profit, profits, rake-off, return, returns, store, take, take-in, unpaid accounts, wealth, winnings

receivable

• receivable, admissible, admissive, admissory, back, due, hospitable, imbibitory, in arrear, in arrears, ingestive, intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, mature, open, outstanding, owed, owing, payable, receptible, receptive, recipient, redeemable, unpaid, welcoming

receivables

• receivables, avails, box office, commissions, credit, credits, disposable income, dividend, dividends, earned income, earnings, gains, gate, gate receipts, get, gross, gross income, gross receipts, income, intake, make, net, net income, net receipts, output, proceeds, produce, profits, receipt, receipts, returns, revenue, royalties, take, take-in, takings, unearned income, yield

receive

• receive, abide by, accede, accept, accept for gospel, accept implicitly, acclaim, acknowledge receipt of, acquiesce, acquiesce in, acquire, admit, agree, agree to, agree with, applaud, ascertain, assent, assimilate, assume, be certain, be paid, be subjected to, be told, bear, believe, believe without reservation, buy, catch up, cheer, claim, clap hands on, clasp, claw, clear, clench, clinch, clutch, collect, come by, come in for, come into, complete, comply, comprehend, comprise, consent, contain, count in, cover, credit, derive, derive from, drag down, drain off, draw, draw from, draw off, earn, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, endure, envisage, experience, fill, fill in, fill out, find out, gain, gather, get, get hold of, give an entree, give faith to, give the nod, glom on to, grab, grab hold of, grapple, grasp, greet, grip, gripe, gross, hail, have, have coming in, hear, hold, hold with, home on, hug, identify, immit, in toto, include, incorporate, inherit, intromit, lay hands on, lay hold of, learn, let in, loot, make, map, mark paid, meet, meet with, nail, net, nip, nip up, nod, nod assent, number among, obtain, occupy, palm, partake, pick up, pillage, pinpoint, pocket, possess, profit, pull down, put faith in, receipt, reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, scan, secure, seize, set store by, snap up, snatch, spot, steal, subscribe to, suffer, sustain, swallow, sweep, take, take by assault, take by storm, take for granted, take hold of, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take kindly to, take on, take on faith, take on trust, take over, take possession, take stock in, take up, throw open to, trigger, trust, tune in, undergo, vote for, welcome, whip up, yes, yield assent

received

• received, Christian, accepted, acclaimed, acknowledged, admired, admitted, advocated, affirmed, allowed, applauded, approved, authentic, authenticated, authoritative, avowed, backed, being done, believed, canonical, cathedral, certified, comme il faut, conceded, confessed, confirmed, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, correct, countersigned, credited, cried up, current, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, endorsed, established, evangelical, everyday, ex cathedra, faithful, familiar, favored, favorite, firm, fixed, folk, formal, generally accepted, granted, hallowed, handed down, heroic, highly touted, hoary, immemorial, in good odor, inveterate, legendary, literal, long-established, long-standing, magisterial, meet, mythological, normal, notarized, obtaining, of long standing, of the faith, of the folk, official, oral, ordinary, orthodox, orthodoxical, popular, prescribed, prescriptive, prevalent, professed, proper, ratified, recognized, recommended, regular, regulation, right, rooted, sanctioned, scriptural, sealed, seemly, set, signed, sound, stamped, standard, stock, supported, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, textual, time-honored, traditional, traditionalistic, tried and true, true, true-blue, trusted, uncontested, understood, underwritten, undisputed, undoubted, unquestioned, unsuspected, unwritten, usual, validated, venerable, warranted, well-thought-of, widespread, wonted, worshipful

receiver

• receiver, Christian, God-fearing man, TelAutography, Teletype, Teletype network, Teletyping, accepter, accountant, acquirer, addressee, audience, auditor, beholder, believer, bookkeeper, bursar, cabinet, call box, cashier, cashkeeper, catechumen, chamberlain, chassis, churchgoer, churchite, churchman, closed-circuit telegraphy, code, coin telephone, communicant, comptroller, consignee, console, container, controller, convert, curator, daily communicant, depositary, depository, desk telephone, devotee, devotionalist, dial telephone, disciple, duplex telegraphy, electricity, extension, facsimile telegraph, fanatic, fence, financial officer, follower, getter, good Christian, hearer, holder, housing, interrupter, key, liquidator, listener, looker, mouthpiece, multiplex telegraphy, neophyte, news ticker, obtainer, pay station, payee, paymaster, phone, pietist, procurer, proselyte, public telephone, purse bearer, quadruplex telegraphy, radio, radio receiver, radio set, radio telescope, railroad telegraphy, receiving set, receptacle, recipient, religionist, saint, sender, set, simplex telegraphy, single-current telegraphy, sounder, spectator, steward, stock ticker, submarine telegraphy, swagman, swagsman, taker, telegraphics, telegraphy, telephone, telephone booth, telephone engineering, telephone extension, telephone mechanics, telephone receiver, telephonics, telephony, teleprinter, teletypewriter, teletypewriting, telex, theist, ticker, transmitter, treasurer, trustee, truster, typotelegraph, typotelegraphy, utensil, vessel, viewer, votary, wall telephone, wire service, wireless, wireless set, zealot

recension

• recension, amendment, article, autograph, brainchild, composition, computer printout, copy, correction, document, draft, edited version, editing, emendation, engrossment, essay, fair copy, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, holograph, letter, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, manuscript, matter, nonfiction, opus, original, paper, parchment, penscript, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, printed matter, printout, production, reading matter, rectification, redaction, redraft, rescript, rescription, revampment, review, revisal, revise, revised edition, revision, rewrite, rewriting, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, the written word, transcript, transcription, typescript, version, work, writing

recent

• recent, ancient, brand-new, current, early, erstwhile, fore, former, fresh, immemorial, just out, late, later, latest, latter, modern, modernistic, neoteric, new, new-fashioned, newfangled, newly come, novel, of yesterday, old, olden, once, onetime, past, prehistoric, previous, primeval, primitive, prior, quondam, sometime, then

recently

• recently, aforetime, afresh, anew, before, before now, beforetime, earlier, erenow, erewhile, erst, formerly, heretofore, historically, hitherto, in the past, in times past, just now, lately, latterly, new, newly, not long ago, now, of late, only yesterday, prehistorically, previously, priorly, right now, the other day, then, whilom, yesterday

receptacle

• receptacle, amnion, androecium, anther, autoclave, bag, basket, billy, bladder, bleb, blister, boll, botany, box, bucket, caddy, cage, calyx, can, canister, capsule, carpel, case, casket, casserole, cell, chest, china, chinaware, coaster, compote, container, corolla, corolla tube, corona, crock, crucible, cyst, dish, epicalyx, fistula, follicle, gallbladder, gallipot, garbage can, gynoecium, hod, holdall, holder, hopper, legume, loculus, magazine, marsupium, megasporophyll, microsporophyll, mortar, mortarboard, pail, palette, patera, perianth, pericarp, petal, pistil, pitcher, plate, platter, pocket, pod, powder horn, receiver, reliquary, repository, sac, saccule, sacculus, saccus, salver, saucer, scrotum, scuttle, seedcase, silique, sinus, slop pail, sound, stamen, stigma, stomach, style, tableware, tin, torus, trash can, tray, trencher, udder, utensil, vasculum, vat, ventricle, vesica, vesicle, vessel, waiter, wastepaper basket, watering can

reception

• reception, acceptance, acceptation, acception, access, accueil, acquiescence, acquisition, admissibility, admission, admittance, affair, assemblee, assembly, assignation, assimilation, assumption, assurance, assuredness, at home, atmospherics, ball, belief, blaring, blasting, blind spot, brawl, caucus, certainty, claiming, colloquium, commission, committee, completeness, comprehension, comprehensiveness, comprisal, conclave, concourse, confidence, congregation, congress, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, coverage, crawling, credence, credit, credulity, creeping, dance, date, dependence, derivation, diet, do, drift, eisteddfod, eligibility, embodiment, embrace, embracement, encompassment, entrance, entree, entry, envisagement, exhaustiveness, fade-out, fading, faith, festivity, fete, forgathering, forum, function, gathering, get-together, getting, greeting, hearty welcome, hope, housewarming, hug, import, importation, importing, inclusion, inclusiveness, income, incoming, incorporation, infiltration, ingoing, ingress, ingression, input, insertion, insinuation, intake, interference, interpenetration, introduction, introgression, intrusion, leakage, levee, matinee, meet, meeting, membership, noise, open arms, opening, openness, panel, participation, party, penetration, percolation, plenum, possession, preview, prom, quorum, rally, reaction, receipt, receival, receiving, reliance, reliance on, rendezvous, response, reunion, salon, seance, seepage, session, shindig, sit-in, sitting, smiling reception, sociable, social, social affair, social gathering, soiree, static, stock, store, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, symposium, synod, taking, taking away, taking possession, the glad hand, theft, tolerance, toleration, treatment, trust, turnout, vernissage, wake, welcome, welcome mat, welcoming, whole

receptive

• receptive, accessible, acquiescent, adaptable, admissible, admissive, admissory, agreeable, alacritous, alert, alive to, amenable, amiable, apt, ardent, astute, aware, bendable, bending, bright, clever, cognizant, compliant, conscious, consenting, content, cooperative, cordial, delicate, disposed, docile, ductile, eager, educable, elastic, emotionable, enthusiastic, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, forward, friendly, game, generous, genial, giving, gracious, hearty, hospitable, imbibitory, impressible, impressionable, impressive, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, influenceable, ingestive, instructable, intelligent, interested, intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, keen, liberal, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, minded, moldable, motivated, movable, neighborly, open, open-minded, openhearted, passible, perceptive, persuadable, persuasible, pervious, plastic, pliable, pliant, predisposed, prompt, prone, quick, ready, ready and willing, receivable, receiving, receptible, recipient, responsive, ripe for instruction, schoolable, sensatory, sensible, sensile, sensimotor, sensitive, sensitive to, sensorial, sensorimotor, sensory, sensuous, sentient, sequacious, shapable, sharp, sib, soft, softhearted, springy, suasible, submissive, suggestible, supple, susceptible, susceptive, swayable, sympathetic, teachable, tender, tenderhearted, thirsty for knowledge, tractable, tractile, trainable, warm, warmhearted, weak, welcoming, well-disposed, well-inclined, whippy, willed, willing, willinghearted, willowy, yielding, zealous

recess

• recess, Jim Crow, abeyance, adjourn, adytum, alcove, apartheid, apartness, ashram, asylum, bay, bolt-hole, bosom, break, breath, breathe, breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, cache, caesura, call a break, call a recess, call time, carrel, cease-fire, cell, center, cigarette break, cloister, cocktail hour, coffee break, concealment, continue, core, corner, cove, cover, covert, coverture, cranny, cubby, cubbyhole, cubicle, dark corner, day off, declare a recess, deepest recesses, defer, delay, den, dent, depress, depths, detachment, dimple, dint, dissolve, downtime, drag out, drop, dugout, enforced respite, engrave, extend, foxhole, funk hole, half time, half-time intermission, halt, hang fire, hang up, happy hour, heart, heart of hearts, hermitage, hesitate, hesitation, hideaway, hideout, hidey hole, hiding, hiding place, hold off, hold over, hold up, hole, holiday, hollow, holy of holies, impress, imprint, indent, inglenook, inner, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, inside, interim, interior, interior man, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermit, intermittence, intern, internal, interregnum, interruption, interval, intervene, intrados, inward, isolation, isolationism, ivory tower, knock off, lair, lapse, lay aside, lay by, lay off, lay over, layoff, let up, letup, lull, mew, niche, nook, notch, off-time, oriel, pause, penetralia, pigeonhole, pit, pitchhole, plateau, pock, pockmark, point of repose, postpone, press in, privacy, privatism, privatization, prolong, prorogate, prorogue, protract, punch, punch in, push aside, put aside, put off, put on ice, quarantine, quiet spell, recesses, recession, reclusion, refuge, relief, remission, reserve, respite, rest, resting point, retirement, retreat, rise, roomlet, rustication, sanctuary, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, seclusion, secrecy, secret place, secret places, segregation, separation, sequestration, set aside, set back, set by, set in, shelve, shift off, sleep on, snuggery, soul, spell, splendid isolation, stamp, stand over, stand-down, stash, stave off, stay, stop for breath, stretch out, surcease, suspend, suspension, table, take a break, take a recess, take a rest, take five, take ten, take time out, tamp, tea break, terminate, time off, time out, truce, undercovert, vacation, vital center, vitals, waive, withdrawal

recession

• recession, abandonment, alcove, backset, backsliding, backward motion, backward step, bad times, bay, boom, bottoming out, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, capitulation, cession, cooling off, corner, cove, crisis, decline, depression, dip, downturn, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, economic stagnation, evil day, expanding economy, expansion, giving in, giving over, giving up, growth, hard times, heavy weather, high growth rate, inglenook, lapse, low, market expansion, niche, nook, peak, peaking, pitchhole, prosperity, rainy day, reaction, recedence, recess, recidivation, recidivism, recovery, reentry, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, relapse, relinquishment, renunciation, retreat, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrogression, retrusion, return, rollback, sad times, setback, slowdown, slump, stagnation, sternway, stormy weather, surrender, throwback, upturn

recessive character

• recessive character, Altmann theory, DNA, De Vries theory, Galtonian theory, Mendelianism, Mendelism, RNA, Verworn theory, Weismann theory, Weismannism, Wiesner theory, allele, allelomorph, birth, character, chromatid, chromatin, chromosome, determinant, determiner, diathesis, endowment, eugenics, factor, gene, genesiology, genetic code, genetics, hereditability, heredity, heritability, heritage, inborn capacity, inheritability, inheritance, matrocliny, patrocliny, pharmacogenetics, replication

recessive

• recessive, atavistic, reactionary, recedent, recessional, recessionary, recidivist, recidivous, regressive, retroactive, retrocedent, retrocessive, retrograde, retrogressive, retrorse, retroverse, returnable, reversible, reversional, reversionary, revertible, revulsionary

recharge

• recharge, activate, bring back, bring to, call back, reactivate, reanimate, recall to life, recruit, refresh, regenerate, reheat the ashes, reinspire, rejuvenate, rekindle, relight, renew, resurrect, resuscitate, revitalize, revive, revivify, rewarm, stir the embers, warm over, warm up

recherche

• recherche, braw, breakaway, chic, classy, clothes-conscious, cosmopolitan, dainty, dapper, dashing, delicate, dressed to advantage, dressed to kill, elegant, exotic, exquisite, fresh, genteel, jaunty, natty, neat, new, nifty, nobby, novel, offbeat, original, posh, rare, ritzy, select, sharp, sleek, smart, smug, snazzy, soigne, soignee, sophisticated, spiffy, spruce, style-conscious, sui generis, superior, swank, swanky, swell, tricksy, trig, trim, uncommon, uncustomary, undreamed-of, unexpected, unfamiliar, unheard-of, unique, unordinary, unthought-of, unusual, unwonted, well-dressed, well-groomed

recidivate

• recidivate, backslide, cock, fall, fall again into, fall astern, fall back, fall behind, fall from grace, get behind, go backwards, go behind, have a relapse, jerk back, lapse, lapse back, lose ground, pull back, recede, recur to, regress, relapse, retrocede, retroflex, retrograde, retrogress, retrovert, return, return to, reverse, revert, revert to, sink back, slide back, slip back, yield again to

recidivism

• recidivism, about-face, amorality, apostasy, atheism, backing, backset, backslide, backsliding, backward motion, backward step, betrayal, bolt, breakaway, carnality, criminality, defection, delinquency, desertion, disenchantment, disloyalty, evil, evil nature, faithlessness, fall, fall from grace, flip-flop, going over, immorality, impiety, impiousness, impurity, irreligion, irreverence, lapse, lapse from grace, moral delinquency, peccability, prodigality, ratting, reaction, recession, recidivation, reclamation, reconversion, recreancy, reentry, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinstatement, relapse, restitution, restoration, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, retrusion, return, returning, reversal, reverse, reversion, reverting, revulsion, rollback, secession, setback, slipping back, sternway, throwback, treason, turn, turnabout, turning traitor, unangelicalness, unchastity, uncleanness, undutifulness, ungodliness, ungoodness, unmorality, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unvirtuousness, vice, viciousness, wantonness, waywardness, wrongdoing

recidivist

• recidivist, Adamic, Sabbath-breaker, apostate, atavistic, atheist, atheistic, backslider, backsliding, bad egg, bad lot, black sheep, blasphemer, blasphemous, bolter, carnal, collaborationist, collaborator, convert, defector, degenerate, deserter, erring, fallen, fallen angel, fallen from grace, fifth columnist, fleshly, frail, impious, impure, infirm, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, lecher, lost lamb, lost sheep, lost soul, miscreant, mugwump, of easy virtue, peccable, pervert, pimp, postlapsarian, prodigal, prodigal son, profanatory, profane, profligate, proselyte, quisling, reactionary, recessive, recidivistic, recidivous, recreant, regressive, renegade, renegado, renegate, repeater, reprobate, retrograde, retrogressive, retrorse, retroverse, returnable, returnee, reversible, reversional, reversionary, reversioner, reversionist, revertible, revulsionary, runagate, sacrilegious, sacrilegist, scapegrace, schismatic, seceder, secessionist, separatist, sorry lot, strikebreaker, tergiversant, tergiversator, traitor, trollop, turnabout, turncoat, turntail, two-time loser, unangelic, unbeliever, unchaste, unclean, undutiful, ungodly, ungood, unrighteous, unsaintly, unvirtuous, virtueless, wanton, wayward, weak, whore

recipe

• recipe, MO, aid, alterative, analeptic, approach, assistance, balm, balsam, corrective, cure, form, formula, formulary, healing agent, healing quality, help, means, method, modus operandi, plan, prescription, procedure, receipt, relief, remedial measure, remedy, restorative, sovereign remedy, specific, specific remedy, succor, system, technique, way

recipient

• recipient, accepter, acquirer, addressee, admissible, admissive, admissory, audience, auditor, beholder, beneficiary, consignee, getter, hearer, heir, heiress, holder, hospitable, imbibitory, ingestive, intromissive, intromittent, invitatory, inviting, legatee, listener, looker, obtainer, open, payee, procurer, receivable, receiver, receiving, receptible, receptive, spectator, taker, trustee, viewer, welcoming

reciprocal

• reciprocal, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, ally, alter ego, alternate, analogon, analogous, analogue, answering, associate, associated, back-and-forth, beating, brother, cardinal, changeable, circling, close copy, close match, coacting, coactive, coadjutant, coadjuvant, coefficient, coequal, cognate, collaborative, collective, collectivist, collectivistic, collusive, combined, commensal, common, communal, communalist, communalistic, communist, communistic, communitarian, commutable, commutative, commutual, companion, compensatory, complement, complemental, complementary, concerted, concordant, concurrent, concurring, congenator, congener, conjoint, conniving, convertible, cooperant, cooperating, cooperative, coordinate, correlate, correlative, correspondent, corresponding, counterpart, cyclic, decimal, differential, digital, double, duplicate, ecumenic, epochal, equal, equalizing, equipollent, equivalent, even, every other, exchanged, exponential, fellow, figural, figurate, figurative, finite, fractional, general, give-and-take, harmonious, harmonized, homologous, image, imaginary, impair, impossible, in common, infinite, integral, interchangeable, interchanged, intermittent, irrational, isochronal, joint, kindred spirit, like, likeness, logarithmic, logometric, match, mate, measured, metronomic, mutual, near duplicate, negative, noncompetitive, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, obverse, odd, ordinal, oscillatory, pair, parallel, pendant, periodical, permutable, picture, popular, positive, possible, prime, public, pulsing, punitive, radical, rational, real, reciprocating, reciprocative, recompensing, recompensive, recurrent, recurring, reparative, restitutive, retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory, returnable, rhythmic, rotary, seasonal, second self, seesaw, serial, shared, similitude, simulacrum, sine wave, sister, social, socialistic, societal, soul mate, standard, steady, submultiple, such, suchlike, surd, swapped, switched, symbiotic, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, tally, tantamount, the like of, the likes of, to-and-fro, traded, transcendental, transposed, twin, uncompetitive, undulant, undulatory, up-and-down, wavelike, wheeling

reciprocate

• reciprocate, accord, act in concert, act together, affiliate, agree, agree with, ally, alternate, amalgamate, answer, answer to, associate, back and fill, band, band together, bandy, battledore and shuttlecock, be in league, be quits with, change, chime in with, club together, coact, coalesce, coequal, collaborate, collude, combine, come and go, come back at, commute, compensate, complement, concert, concord, concur, confederate, consolidate, conspire, cooperate, correspond, correspond to, cotton to, counter, counterchange, do business with, ebb and flow, empathize, equal, exchange, fall in with, federate, fuse, get along, get along with, get back at, get even with, get heads together, get on with, get together, give and take, give in exchange, give in return, go partners, hang together, harmonize, harmonize with, hit back at, hitch and hike, hold together, hook up, identify with, interchange, join, join in, join together, keep together, league, league together, logroll, make common cause, match, merge, partner, pass and repass, pay back, permute, play ball, pull together, put heads together, recompense, repay, requite, respond, respond to, retaliate, retort, return, return the compliment, ride and tie, seesaw, shuttle, shuttlecock, sing in chorus, stand together, strike back, swap, swing, switch, sympathize, team up, teeter, teeter-totter, throw in together, tie in, tie up, to-and-fro, trade, transpose, understand one another, unite, unite efforts, wax and wane, wibble-wabble, wigwag, work together, zigzag

reciprocation

• reciprocation, Lissajous figure, alternation, back-and-forth, balance, battledore and shuttlecock, boomerang, coequality, comeback, coming and going, communion, community, commutation, cooperation, corelation, correlation, correlativism, correlativity, correspondence, counter, counterblast, counterblow, counterchange, counterstroke, cross fire, ebb and flow, equilibrium, equipollence, equivalence, exchange, flux and reflux, give-and-take, interchange, intermutation, interplay, inverse proportion, inverse ratio, inverse relationship, lex talionis, measure for measure, mutual admiration, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutuality, permutation, proportionality, quid pro quo, reciprocality, reciprocity, recoil, relativity, reply, retaliation, retort, return, rhythmic play, seesaw, seesawing, sine wave, something for something, symmetry, teeter, teeter-totter, teeter-tottering, teetering, tit for tat, to-and-fro, tottering, transposal, transposition, ups and downs, wigwag

reciprocity

• reciprocity, accord, accordance, affinity, agape, agreement, alternation, amity, balance, battledore and shuttlecock, bipartisanship, bonds of harmony, brotherly love, caritas, cement of friendship, charity, coaction, coadjuvancy, coadministration, coagency, cochairmanship, codirectorship, coequality, collaboration, collaborativeness, collectivism, collusion, commensalism, common effort, common enterprise, communalism, communion, communism, communitarianism, community, community of interests, commutation, compatibility, complicity, concert, concord, concordance, concurrence, congeniality, cooperation, cooperativeness, corelation, correlation, correlativism, correlativity, correspondence, counterchange, cross fire, duet, duumvirate, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenism, empathy, equilibrium, equipollence, equivalence, esprit, esprit de corps, exchange, feeling of identity, fellow feeling, fellowship, frictionlessness, give-and-take, good vibes, good vibrations, happy family, harmony, identity, interchange, intermutation, interplay, inverse proportion, inverse ratio, inverse relationship, joining of forces, joint effort, joint operation, kinship, lex talionis, like-mindedness, love, mass action, measure for measure, morale, mutual admiration, mutual assistance, mutual support, mutual transfer, mutualism, mutuality, octet, oneness, peace, permutation, pooling, pooling of resources, proportionality, pulling together, quartet, quid pro quo, quintet, rapport, rapprochement, reciprocality, reciprocation, relativity, retaliation, septet, sextet, sharing, solidarity, something for something, symbiosis, symmetry, sympathy, symphony, synergism, synergy, team spirit, teamwork, tit for tat, transposal, transposition, trio, triumvirate, troika, understanding, union, unison, united action, unity

recital

• recital, Philharmonic concert, account, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assignment, band concert, chalk talk, chamber concert, concert, copy, critique, debate, declamation, description, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dwelling upon, elaboration, entertainment, enumeration, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, exposition, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, going over, harangue, homework, homily, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, instruction, interpretation, invective, iteration, jeremiad, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, musical performance, musical program, musicale, narration, narrative, object lesson, oration, pep talk, performance, peroration, philharmonic, philippic, pitch, pop concert, pops, popular concert, practicing, preachment, prepared speech, prepared text, presentation, program, program of music, prom, promenade concert, public speech, reading, reaffirmation, recap, recapitulation, recitation, recountal, recounting, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, relation, rendition, repetition, report, reprint, restatement, resume, retelling, review, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, sermon, service of music, set speech, set task, show, skull session, speech, speechification, speeching, story, summary, summing up, symphony concert, tale-telling, talk, talkathon, task, teaching, telling, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, version, yarn spinning

recitation

• recitation, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assignment, chalk talk, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, exposition, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue, homework, homily, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, instruction, invective, jeremiad, lecture, lecture-demonstration, lesson, monologue, moral, moral lesson, morality, moralization, object lesson, oration, pep talk, performance, peroration, philippic, pitch, preachment, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, reading, recital, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, sermon, set speech, set task, skull session, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, task, teaching, tirade, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address

recite

• recite, add up, affirm, allege, allegorize, assert, asseverate, aver, battologize, cast up, chronicle, cipher up, commit to memory, con, count, count up, debate, declaim, declare, demagogue, describe, detail, elocute, enumerate, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, figure up, fill, foot up, get by heart, get letter-perfect, give an encore, go over, go through, harangue, have by heart, hold forth, inventory, itemize, iterate, know by heart, learn by heart, learn verbatim, list, memorize, mouth, mythicize, mythify, mythologize, narrate, novelize, number, nuncupate, orate, out-herod Herod, pad, parrot, perorate, practice, present, proclaim, quote, rabble-rouse, rant, read, reaffirm, reassert, recap, recapitulate, reckon up, recount, rehash, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, relate, repeat, repeat by heart, report, reprint, restate, resume, retail, retell, review, reword, rodomontade, romance, run over, say over, say over again, score up, share, spiel, spout, state, storify, study, sum, sum up, summarize, summate, swot up, tally up, tautologize, tell, tell a story, tot up, total, total up, tote up, tub-thump, unfold a tale

reciter

• reciter, Roscius, actor, actress, anecdotist, antagonist, bad guy, barnstormer, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, diseur, diseuse, dramatizer, elocutioner, elocutionist, fableist, fabler, fabulist, feeder, fictionist, foil, heavy, histrio, histrion, improvisator, improvvisatore, ingenue, juvenile, matinee idol, mime, mimer, mimic, monologist, mummer, mythmaker, mythopoet, narrator, novelettist, novelist, pantomime, pantomimist, playactor, player, protean actor, raconteur, reader, recitationist, recounter, relator, romancer, romancist, sagaman, short-story writer, soubrette, spinner of yarns, stage performer, stage player, stooge, storier, storyteller, straight man, stroller, strolling player, taleteller, teller of tales, theatrical, thespian, trouper, utility man, villain, word painter, yarn spinner

reckless

• reckless, accident-prone, adventuresome, agile, airy, apathetic, ataractic, audacious, blase, brash, breakneck, carefree, careless, casual, cursory, dangerous, daredevil, daring, dashing, degage, desperate, devil-may-care, disinterested, dispassionate, disregardant, disregardful, double-quick, eagle-winged, easygoing, expeditious, express, fast, feckless, fleet, flippant, flying, foolhardy, foolish, forgetful, free and easy, furious, galloping, hair-trigger, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, heedless, hopeless, hotheaded, hurried, hustling, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, impatient, impetuous, impolitic, imprudent, impulsive, inadvisable, inattentive, incautious, inconsiderate, incurious, indifferent, indiscreet, inexcitable, inexpedient, injudicious, insensate, insouciant, irrational, irresponsible, lackadaisical, lazy, light of heel, light-footed, listless, lively, mad, madcap, mercurial, mindless, misadvised, misguided, myopic, negligent, nimble, nimble-footed, nonchalant, oblivious, offhand, overeager, overenthusiastic, overhasty, overzealous, perfunctory, pococurante, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rapid, rash, reasonless, regardless, respectless, running, senseless, shortsighted, slap-bang, slapdash, snappy, spanking, speedy, sudden, swift, tactless, temerarious, thoughtless, turned-off, unadvised, unanxious, unconcerned, unconsidered, undiplomatic, undiscerning, undiscriminating, unforeseeing, unheedful, unheeding, uninterested, unmindful, unprepared, unready, unreasonable, unreflecting, unreflective, unseeing, unsensible, unsolicitous, unsound, untactful, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, venturesome, venturous, wanton, wild, winged, witless

recklessly

• recklessly, a corps perdu, airily, any old way, any which way, anyhow, apathetically, bunglingly, carelessly, casually, clumsily, cursorily, desperately, disinterestedly, dispassionately, disregardfully, forgetfully, furiously, haphazardly, happen what may, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter, hit and miss, hit or miss, holus-bolus, hotheadedly, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, impetuously, impulsively, inattentively, inconsiderately, insouciantly, lackadaisically, like crazy, like mad, listlessly, madly, messily, mindlessly, negligently, nonchalantly, offhand, offhandedly, once over lightly, overeagerly, overenthusiastically, overzealously, perfunctorily, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, promiscuously, quickly, ramble-scramble, rashly, regardlessly, slam-bang, slap-bang, slapdash, sloppily, suddenly, tactlessly, thoughtlessly, unconcernedly, unguardedly, unheedfully, unheedingly, uninterestedly, unmindfully, unsolicitously, unthinkingly, unvigilantly, unwarily, wantonly, wildly

recklessness

• recklessness, abandon, accidia, acedia, apathy, ataraxia, ataraxy, callowness, careless abandon, carelessness, casualness, childishness, cursoriness, desperateness, detachment, devil-may-careness, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, disregardfulness, easiness, easygoingness, forgetfulness, furiousness, haste, hastiness, heedlessness, hotheadedness, hurriedness, immaturity, impatience, impetuosity, impetuousness, imprudence, impulsiveness, inadvisability, inattention, inconsiderateness, inconsideration, incuriosity, indifference, indiscreetness, indiscretion, indiscrimination, inexcitability, inexpedience, injudiciousness, insouciance, irrationality, lack of affect, lack of foresight, lackadaisicalness, laziness, listlessness, mindlessness, negligence, nonchalance, oblivion, offhandedness, overeagerness, overenthusiasm, overhastiness, overzealousness, perfunctoriness, pococurantism, pompousness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, precipitousness, puerility, quickness, rashness, reasonlessness, regardlessness, senselessness, sloth, sprezzatura, stuffiness, suddenness, tactlessness, thoughtlessness, unanxiousness, unconcern, unheedfulness, unintelligence, unmindfulness, unpreparedness, unreadiness, unreason, unreasonableness, unsensibleness, unsolicitousness, unsolicitude, unsoundness, unthinkingness, unthoughtfulness, unwisdom, unwiseness, wantonness, wildness, witlessness

reckon on

• reckon on, bank, bank on, bargain for, bet on, build on, calculate, calculate on, count on, depend, depend on, figure on, forestall, gamble on, lean on, look for, look forward to, look out for, look to, lot, place reliance on, plan on, rely on, rely upon, repose on, rest on, swear by, trust in, trust to, watch out for

reckon with

• reckon with, account with, admit, assimilate, bear in mind, clear the board, complete, comprehend, comprise, contain, count in, cover, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, envisage, even the score, fill, fill in, fill out, get even with, have regard for, hold, hold in mind, include, incorporate, keep in mind, keep in sight, keep in view, number among, occupy, pay old debts, pay out, receive, reckon among, reckon in, settle accounts with, settle with, take account of, take cognizance of, take heed of, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take note of, take notice of, take up

reckon

• reckon, account, account as, account for, add, add up, algebraize, appraise, appreciate, approximate, assess, assume, attend to, bank on, be afraid, bear in mind, believe, calculate, call, cast, cipher, class, compute, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, contemplate, count, count on, daresay, deal with, deduce, deem, depend on, divide, divine, dope out, dream, enumerate, esteem, estimate, evaluate, expect, extract roots, fancy, feel, figure, figure in, figure out, figure up, foot, form an estimate, gather, gauge, give an appreciation, grant, guess, handle, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have the idea, hold, hold as, imagine, include, infer, judge, lean on, let, let be, list, look after, look upon, look upon as, maintain, make an estimation, mark, measure, multiply, name, number, opine, pay attention to, place, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, prize, provisionally accept, put, rank, rate, reckon up, reckon with, regard, rely on, remember, repute, say, score, see to, set down as, settle accounts with, subtract, sum, sum up, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take account of, take care of, take for, take for granted, take into account, take into consideration, take it, take to be, tally, tally up, think, think about, think of, total, total up, trow, trust in, understand, valuate, value, venture, view, view as, ween, work out, work up

reckoning

• reckoning, a reckoning of, account, account current, account of, account rendered, account stated, accounts, adding, addition, aggregate, allowance, amount, analyzing, appraisal, appraisement, appraising, appreciation, arithmetic, assessing, assessment, balance, bill, bill of account, bill of lading, blackmail, blood money, body count, box score, calculating, calculation, calculus, capitulation, cash account, cast, casting, census, check, check of, ciphering, computation, control account, count, count of, counting, difference, doom, dun, emolument, enumeration, estimate, estimation, evaluating, evaluation, evaluative criticism, fee, figuring, footing, gauging, head count, hush money, income account, initiation fee, inventory, invoice, itemized bill, manifest, measurement, mileage, nose count, number, opinion, product, provision account, quantity, ranking, rating, recapitulation, recount, recounting, rehearsal, repertory, retainer, retaining fee, retribution, revenue account, running account, sales account, score, scot, selling account, statement, stipend, stock account, sum, summary, summation, summing, summing up, suspense account, tab, tabs of, tale, tally, tally of, the bottom line, the story, the whole story, total, totaling, toting, track of, tribute, valuation, valuation account, valuing, view, weighing, whole, x number

reclaim

• reclaim, abet, aid, amend, assist, avail, bail out, bear a hand, befriend, benefit, comfort, do good, doctor, ease, favor, get back, give a boost, give a hand, give a lift, give help, help, lend a hand, lend one aid, new-model, proffer aid, protect, rally, ransom, re-form, recapture, recondition, reconstruct, recoup, recover, recuperate, recycle, redeem, reeducate, refashion, reform, regain, regenerate, rehabilitate, reinstruct, rejuvenate, relieve, remedy, remodel, render assistance, renew, renovate, reoccupy, repatriate, replevin, replevy, repossess, rescue, reshape, restitute, restore, restore self-respect, resume, resuscitate, retake, retrieve, revindicate, revive, salvage, save, set straight, set up, succor, take back, take in tow, win back

reclaimable

• reclaimable, ameliorable, amendable, correctable, corrigible, curable, emendable, fixable, improvable, medicable, mendable, recoverable, rectifiable, recyclable, redeemable, remediable, repairable, reparable, restorable, retrievable, reversible

reclamation

• reclamation, about-face, amendment, amends, atonement, backing, backsliding, change of allegiance, change of heart, change of mind, compensation, composition, compromise, disenchantment, expiation, expiatory offering, flip-flop, improvement, indemnification, indemnity, lapse, making amends, making good, making right, making up, new birth, peace offering, piaculum, propitiation, quittance, ransom, readjustment, rebirth, recapture, recidivation, recidivism, reclaiming, recompense, reconditioning, reconversion, recoup, recoupment, recovery, recrudescence, recuperation, redemption, redress, reeducation, reform, reformation, regainment, regeneration, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinstatement, reinstruction, relapse, renascence, renewal, reoccupation, reparation, repatriation, replevin, replevy, repossession, restitution, restoration, resumption, retake, retaking, retrieval, retrieve, retrocession, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, return, returning, reversal, reverse, reversion, reverting, revindication, revival, revulsion, salvage, salvation, satisfaction, slipping back, squaring, trover, turn, turnabout

recline

• recline, abut on, be based on, bear on, bed, bed down, bestraddle, bestride, cant, couch, crawl, curl up, go to bed, go to rest, grovel, heel, incline, lay, lean, lean on, lie, lie down, lie flat, lie limply, lie on, lie prone, lie prostrate, list, loll, lounge, perch, prone, prostrate, rely on, repose, repose on, rest, rest on, ride, settle to rest, sit on, slope, snug down, sprawl, stand on, straddle, stretch out, stride, supinate, take it easy, take life easy, tilt, tip

reclining

• reclining, accubation, accumbency, accumbent, couchancy, couchant, couche, crawling, debasement, decumbency, decumbent, depression, draped, flat, groveling, loll, lolling, lounging, lowness, lying, lying down, procumbent, prone, proneness, prostrate, prostration, reclination, recumbency, recumbent, repose, reposing, resupine, shortness, sprawl, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squatness, squattiness, stumpiness, subjacency, supine, supineness

recluse

• recluse, Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Timon of Athens, anchoress, anchorite, anchoritic, ascetic, bedridden invalid, cenobite, character, cloistered, cloistered monk, closet cynic, crackpot, crank, desert fathers, desert saints, domestic, eccentric, eremite, eremitic, erratic, flake, freak, hermetic, hermit, hermitess, hermitic, hermitish, homebody, invalid, isolationist, kook, loner, marabout, monk, nonconformist, nun, nut, oddball, outcast, pariah, pillar saint, pillarist, screwball, secluse, seclusionist, seclusive, sequestered, shut in, shut up, shut-in, solitaire, solitary, solitudinarian, stay-at-home, strange duck, stylite, weirdo

recognition

• recognition, acceptance, acclaim, acknowledgment, action, admission, allowance, anagnorisis, angle, apperception, appreciation, appreciativeness, architectonics, architecture, argument, assimilation, atmosphere, attention, avowal, awareness, background, benediction, blurb, boost, bringing to light, buildup, casual discovery, catastrophe, catching, celebrity, chance discovery, character, characterization, cognition, cognizance, color, commendation, complication, concession, confession, consciousness, continuity, contrivance, credit, crediting, declaration, denouement, design, detection, determination, determining, development, device, disclosure, discovery, distinguishment, due, eclat, episode, espial, excavation, exhumation, exposure, fable, falling action, fame, famousness, figure, find, finding, finding out, gimmick, glory, good word, grace, honor, honorable mention, hymn, hype, identification, incident, insight, invention, kudos, line, local color, locating, location, lucky strike, mindfulness, mood, motif, movement, mythos, name, noesis, note, notice, notoriety, notoriousness, paean, perception, peripeteia, plan, plot, plug, popularity, praise, prayer of thanks, profession, promotion, publicity, puff, realization, reclame, rediscovery, reidentification, renown, report, reputation, repute, revelation, right, rising action, scheme, secondary plot, sensibility, serendipity, slant, spotting, story, strike, structure, subject, subplot, switch, thank offering, thank-you, thanks, thanksgiving, the bubble reputation, thematic development, theme, tone, topic, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, twist, uncovering, unearthing, vogue, what is owing

recognizable

• recognizable, apparent, appreciable, apprehensible, ascertainable, beholdable, cognizable, comprehensible, conceivable, detectable, discernible, disclosed, discoverable, distinguishable, evident, exposed, exposed to view, graspable, hanging out, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, insight, knowable, manifest, naked, noticeable, observable, open, open to view, outcropping, perceivable, perceptible, prehensible, revealed, seeable, seizable, showing, to be seen, unclouded, unconcealed, understandable, undisguised, unhidden, viewable, visible, visual, witnessable

recognizance

• recognizance, agreement, arrangement, bail, bond, commitment, contract, contract by deed, contract of record, contract quasi, covenant of indemnity, debenture, debenture bond, deed, deed of trust, deed poll, earnest, earnest money, engagement, escrow, formal contract, gage, group policy, handsel, hock, hostage, implied contract, indent, indenture, insurance policy, mainprise, mortgage deed, obligation, parol contract, pawn, pignus, pledge, policy, preengagement, promissory note, replevin, replevy, special contract, specialty, specialty contract, surety, title deed, token payment, understanding, undertaking, vadimonium, vadium, verbal agreement

recognize

• recognize, accept, acknowledge, admit, agree, agree provisionally, allow, appreciate, apprehend, approve, assent grudgingly, avow, be acquainted with, be apprised of, be aware of, be cognizant of, be conscious of, be conversant with, be informed, behold, bless, catch sight of, clap eyes on, cognize, comprehend, concede, conceive, conceptualize, confess, credit, descry, detect, determinate, diagnose, discern, discover, distinguish, do homage, endorse, espy, express general agreement, fathom, finger, give credit, give thanks, glimpse, go along with, grant, grasp, have, have in sight, have information about, have knowledge of, honor, identify, ken, know, know again, lay eyes on, look on, look upon, make acknowledgments of, make out, nail, not oppose, note, notice, observe, offer thanks, own, peg, perceive, pick out, pick up, pinpoint, place, possess, prehend, ratify, realize, recall, recall knowledge of, recollect, reidentify, remark, remember, render credit, render thanks, respect, return thanks, reward, salute, sanction, savvy, see, seize, sense, sight, spot, spy, take in, tell, thank, twig, understand, validate, view, warrant, witness, wot, wot of, yield

recognized

• recognized, accepted, acknowledged, admitted, affirmed, allowed, appreciated, apprehended, approved, ascertained, authenticated, avowed, being done, certified, comme il faut, comprehended, conceded, conceived, confessed, confirmed, conformable, conventional, correct, countersigned, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, discerned, down pat, endorsed, established, fixed, folk, formal, granted, grasped, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, immemorial, inveterate, known, legendary, long-established, long-standing, meet, mythological, notarized, of long standing, of the folk, oral, orthodox, pat, perceived, prehended, prescriptive, professed, proper, ratified, realized, received, right, rooted, sealed, seemly, seized, signed, stamped, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, underwritten, unwritten, validated, venerable, warranted, worshipful

recoil

• recoil, about the bush, antagonism, antipathy, avoid, avoidance, backfire, backlash, backlashing, backwash, balk, bashfulness, beat around, beg the question, blanch, blench, blink, boggle, boggling, boomerang, bounce, bounce back, bound, bound back, cannon, cannon off, carom, clashing, clout, collision, comeback, compunction, conflict, confutation, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrecoup, counter, counteraction, counterblast, counterblow, counterposition, counterstroke, counterworking, crankiness, cringe, crotchetiness, demur, demurral, diffidence, disapprove of, dissent, dodge, draw back, duck, equivocate, evade, evasion, exchange, fade, fall back, fallback, falter, faltering, fence, fight shy of, flinch, fly back, force, friction, funk, give-and-take, grimace, hang back, hang off, have qualms, have repercussions, hedge, hem and haw, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitate, hesitation, hold off, impact, impress, impression, imprint, interchange, interference, jib, kick, kick back, kickback, lash back, look askance at, make bones about, mark, modesty, nonconformity, objection, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, parry, pause, perverseness, print, protest, pull away, pull back, pullback, pullout, pussyfoot, put off, quail, quake, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, reaction, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrate, recalcitration, reciprocation, reel back, reflex, renitency, repercuss, repercussion, reply, repugnance, repulse, resile, resilience, resistance, response, retaliation, retort, retreat, return, revolt, revolt at, ricochet, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, shake, sheer off, shift, shift off, show distaste for, shrink, shrink back, shrink from, shrinking, shudder, shudder at, shy, shy at, shy away, shy off, shyness, sidestep, sidestepping, snap back, spring, spring back, squinch, start, start aside, start back, step aside, stick, stick at, stickle, stickling, strain, swerve, swimming upstream, tremble, turn aside, ward off, waver, weasel, weasel out, wince

recollect

• recollect, arouse, awaken, bring back, bring to mind, call back, call to mind, call up, cite, conjure up, evoke, go back, go back over, hark back, look back, mind, rally, recall, recall to mind, recapture, reevoke, reflect, remember, remind, reminisce, retain, retrace, retrospect, review, review in retrospect, revive, rouse, see in retrospect, stir, summon up, think back, think of, use hindsight, waken

recollected

• recollected, alive, assured, balanced, collected, composed, confident, eidetic, enduring, equanimous, equilibrious, fresh, green, kept in remembrance, lasting, levelheaded, poised, recalled, reexperienced, relived, remembered, reminiscent, restored, retained, retrospective, revived, self-assured, self-confident, self-controlled, self-possessed, self-restrained, together, unforgotten, vivid, well-balanced

recollection

• recollection, Mnemosyne, affect memory, anamnesis, anterograde memory, atavism, collective memory, commitment to memory, computer memory, disk memory, drum memory, emotional response, engram, exercise of memory, flashback, hindsight, impression, information storage, kinesthetic memory, learning by heart, looking back, memoir, memorization, memorizing, memory, memory bank, memory circuit, memory trace, mind, mneme, race memory, recall, recalling, recollecting, reconsideration, reexperiencing, reflection, reliving, remembering, remembrance, reminiscence, retrospect, retrospection, review, revival, rote, rote memory, screen memory, skill, souvenir, study, tape memory, verbal response, visual memory, youth

recommend

• recommend, acclaim, advance, advise, advocacy, advocate, advocating, advocation, applaud, approve, back, blandish, boost, brief, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, cajole, call on, call upon, certificate of character, character, character reference, coach, coax, commend, commend to attention, compliment, confer, consult with, counsel, credential, cry up, direct, endorse, exhort, favor, guide, hail, high-pressure, hype, importune, insist, insist upon, instruct, introduce, jawbone, kibitz, launch, lay before, letter of introduction, lobby, make a motion, meddle, moot, move, nag, offer a resolution, open up, patronage, persuade, plead with, plug, pose, postulate, praise, prefer, prescribe, press, pressure, promote, propose, proposition, propound, puff, push, put forth, put forward, put it to, recommendation, reference, second, set before, set forth, soft-soap, speak highly of, speak warmly of, speak well of, stand up for, start, submit, subscribe to, suggest, support, sweet-talk, testimonial, tout, underwrite, urge, vouch for, voucher, wheedle, work on

recommendable

• recommendable, advantageous, advisable, appropriate, becoming, befitting, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, expedient, favorable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitten, fitting, fructuous, good, happy, likely, meet, opportune, politic, profitable, proper, right, seasonable, seemly, sortable, suitable, timely, to be desired, useful, well-timed, wise, worthwhile

recommendation

• recommendation, advice, advocacy, approbation, approval, backing, blessing, character, commendation, counsel, direction, encouragement, endorsement, exhortation, good word, guidance, praise, promotion, prompting, proposal, reference, say-so, suggestion, support, testimonial, urging

recompense

• recompense, accord, amend, amends, atone, atone for, atonement, award, balance, balancing, blood money, comeuppance, commutation, compensate, compensation, composition, compromise, consideration, correct, correction, counteraction, counterbalancing, cover, damages, desert, deserts, do penance, emend, expiate, expiation, expiatory offering, fee, fill up, fixing, get satisfaction, give and take, give satisfaction, grant, guerdon, honorarium, indemnification, indemnify, indemnity, just deserts, lex talionis, live down, make all square, make amends, make compensation, make good, make matters up, make reparation, make requital, make restitution, make retribution, make right, make up for, making amends, making good, making right, making up, meed, mending, offset, offsetting, overhaul, overhauling, pay, pay back, pay by installments, pay damages, pay off, pay on, pay reparations, pay the forfeit, pay the penalty, paying back, peace offering, piaculum, prepay, price, propitiate, propitiation, punishment, put right, put straight, put to rights, quit, quittance, reclamation, rectification, rectify, redeem, redemption, redress, refund, reimburse, reimbursement, remedy, remit, remunerate, remuneration, render, repair, repairing, reparation, repay, repayment, reprisal, requital, requite, requitement, restitution, retaliate, retaliation, retribution, return, revenge, reward, right, salary, salvage, satisfaction, satisfy, set right, set straight, set to rights, set up, smart money, solatium, square, square it, square things, squaring, substitution, tender, troubleshooting, vouchsafe, wergild, what is due, what is merited

reconcilable

• reconcilable, accordant, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, answerable, at one, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident, coinciding, commensurate, compatible, concordant, concurring, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentaneous, consentient, consistent, consonant, cooperating, cooperative, correspondent, corresponding, en rapport, equivalent, harmonious, in accord, in agreement, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization, inaccordance, inharmony, like-minded, of a piece, of like mind, of one mind, on all fours, positive, proportionate, self-consistent, symbiotic, synchronized, synchronous, unanimous, uniform, unisonant, unisonous

reconcile

• reconcile, accept, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, adapt, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, agree with, arrange matters, assimilate, assimilate to, attune, be guided by, bend, bring to terms, bring together, bury the hatchet, chime in with, comply, comply with, compose, compromise, condone, conform, coordinate, correct, correspond, countenance, cut to, discipline, equalize, fall in with, fit, fix, fix up, follow, gear to, go by, grin and abide, harmonize, heal the breach, homologate, homologize, integrate, key to, let go by, let pass, make conform, make peace, make plumb, make uniform, measure, mediate, meet, mold, obey, observe, overlook, patch things up, placate, proportion, put in tune, quadrate, rectify, regulate, resign, resolve, restore harmony, reunite, right, rise above, rub off corners, set, set right, settle, settle differences, shape, shrug, shrug it off, similarize, smooth it over, square, straighten, submit, submit to, suit, sync, synchronize, tailor, tally with, trim to, true, true up, tune, unite, weave peace between, yield, yield to

reconciled

• reconciled, accepting, accommodating, acquiescent, adapting, adaptive, adjusting, amenable, at ease, comfortable, compliant, composed, content, contented, easy, easygoing, eupeptic, euphoric, happy, humble, meek, obedient, of good comfort, passive, pleased, resigned, sans souci, satisfied, submissive, uncomplaining, unrepining, unresisting, without care

reconciliation

• reconciliation, acceptance, accommodation, accord, accordance, acquiescence, adaptation, adaption, adjustment, agreement, amity, appeasement, arbitration, assimilation, attunement, coaptation, comfort, compatibility, compliance, composure, compromise, conciliation, concord, conformance, conformation other-direction, conformity, congruity, consistency, content, contentedness, contentment, conventionality, coordination, correspondence, detente, ease, entire satisfaction, euphoria, flexibility, fulfillment, happiness, harmonization, harmonizing, harmony, integration, keeping, line, making up, malleability, mollification, obedience, observance, orthodoxy, pacification, peace of mind, placation, pliancy, propitiation, rapport, rapprochement, reconcilement, regulation, resignation, reunion, satisfaction, satisfying, settlement, squaring, strictness, synchronization, timing, traditionalism, understanding, uniformity, well-being

recondite

• recondite, abstract, abstruse, academic, arcane, beclouded, blind, buried, cabalistic, cabbalistic, close, clouded, concealed, covered, covert, cryptic, dark, deep, difficult, do up, doctor, eclipsed, enigmatic, erudite, esoteric, hard, heavy, hermetic, hid, hidden, impenetrable, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in the wings, incommunicado, incomprehensible, inexplicable, latent, learned, mysterious, mystic, mystical, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, opaque, overhaul, patch, pedantic, profound, rebuild, reclaim, recondition, reconstruct, recover, rehabilitate, rejuvenate, repair, restitute, revamp, runic, scholarly, secluded, secluse, secret, sequestered, sibylline, transcendental, undecipherable, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps, underground, unfathomable, unknown, wrapped in clouds

recondition

• recondition, cobble, commission, condition, darn, do up, doctor, face-lift, fix, fix up, furbish, mend, overhaul, patch, patch up, put in commission, put in order, put in repair, put in shape, ready, recap, reclaim, reeducate, refit, refresh, refurbish, rehabilitate, reinstruct, renew, renovate, repair, repatriate, retread, revamp, service, set to rights, sew up, tinker, tinker up

reconnaissance

• reconnaissance, air cover, air raid, air support, bombing, cover, dry run, examination, exploration, inspection, investigation, milk run, mission, recce, recco, recon, reconnaissance mission, reconnoiter, reconnoitering, scouting, scramble, scrutiny, shuttle raid, sortie, strafing, survey, training mission, umbrella

reconnoiter

• reconnoiter, be vigilant, be watchful, bug, case, course, cover, do, eye, eyeball, follow, gaze at, go over, have a looksee, hold in view, keep in sight, keep in view, keep under observation, look after, look at, look on, look upon, make a reconnaissance, measure, observe, overpass, pass over, pass through, patrol, peep, perambulate, peregrinate, pererrate, play the spy, ply, probe, put under surveillance, range, range over, regard, scour, scour the country, scout, scout out, spy, spy out, spy upon, stake out, sweep, track, transit, travel over, travel through, traverse, view, voyage, watch

reconsider

• reconsider, amend, correct, draw off, go back over, have second thoughts, re-examine, reappraise, rebehold, recheck, reevaluate, reexamine, reinquire, rethink, retrace, revaluate, review, revise, sleep on, think better of, think over

reconsideration

• reconsideration, afterthought, commitment to memory, developed thought, exercise of memory, flashback, hindsight, learning by heart, looking back, mature thought, memoir, memorization, memorizing, re-examination, reappraisal, recall, recalling, recollecting, recollection, reflection, remembering, remembrance, reminiscence, rethinking, retrospect, retrospection, revaluation, review, revision, ripe idea, rote, rote memory, second thought, second thoughts, study

reconstitute

• reconstitute, copy, do over, duplicate, give back, make over, place in, put back, re-create, re-form, reactivate, readjust, realign, rearrange, rebuild, reconstruct, reconvert, recruit, redesign, redispose, redistribute, redo, reenact, reestablish, refashion, refill, reform, refound, regenerate, rehabilitate, reinstall, reinstate, reinstitute, reintegrate, reinvest, reissue, remake, renovate, reorder, reorganize, repeat, replace, replenish, reprint, reproduce, reshape, reshuffle, restore, restructure, resurrect, retool, return, revest, revise, revive, shake up

reconstruct

• reconstruct, accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, ameliorate, better, break up, change, convert, copy, deform, denature, diversify, do over, do up, doctor, duplicate, fit, fix, improve, make over, meliorate, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, overhaul, overthrow, patch, qualify, re-create, re-form, readjust, realign, rearrange, reassemble, rebuild, reclaim, recondition, reconstitute, recover, redesign, redo, reestablish, refabricate, refashion, refit, reform, refound, regenerate, rehabilitate, reinstitute, reissue, rejuvenate, remake, remodel, renew, renovate, reorder, reorganize, repair, repeat, reprint, reproduce, reshape, reshuffle, restitute, restore, restructure, resurrect, retool, revamp, revise, revive, ring the changes, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, subvert, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, vary, work a change, worsen

reconstruction

• reconstruction, copy, duplication, imitation, palingenesis, re-creation, re-formation, reassembling, reassembly, rebirth, rebuilding, reconstitution, redesign, redoing, reedition, reestablishment, refabrication, refashioning, regeneration, regenesis, reinstitution, reissue, remaking, remodeling, renascence, renovation, reorganization, repetition, reprinting, reproduction, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, resurrection, revision, revival

record book

• record book, account book, accounts payable ledger, accounts receivable ledger, atlas, balance sheet, bank ledger, bankbook, books, calendar, card ledger, casebook, cashbook, catalog, catalogue raisonne, city directory, classified catalog, concordance, cost card, cost ledger, cost sheet, cyclopedia, daybook, diatesseron, dictionary catalog, directory, encyclopedia, factory ledger, gazetteer, harmony, index, inventory, journal, ledger, log, logbook, passbook, phone book, polyglot, purchase ledger, reference book, register, registry, sales journal, sales ledger, source book, stock ledger, stores ledger, studbook, suspense ledger, telephone book, telephone directory, work of reference

record changer

• record changer, Gramophone, PA, PA system, Victrola, audio sound system, audiophile, binaural system, bitch box, bullhorn, cartridge, ceramic pickup, changer, crystal pickup, derived four-channel system, discrete four-channel system, four-channel stereo system, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, intercom, intercommunication system, jukebox, magnetic pickup, monaural system, mono, needle, nickelodeon, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pickup, public-address system, quadraphonic sound system, radio-phonograph combination, record player, sound reproduction system, sound truck, squawk box, stereo, stylus, system, tape deck, tape recorder, tone arm, transcription turntable, turntable

record keeping

• record keeping, accounting, analysis, automatic electronic navigation, booking, braking, cataloging, chronicling, computation, coordination, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, fact distribution, forecasts, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inspection, inventorying, listing, logging, manipulation, matriculation, nonlinear calibrations, output measurement, posting, processing, recordation, recording, register, registration, registry, steering, supersonic flow detection, tabulation

record player

• record player, Gramophone, PA, PA system, Victrola, audio sound system, audiophile, binaural system, bitch box, bullhorn, cartridge, ceramic pickup, changer, crystal pickup, derived four-channel system, discrete four-channel system, four-channel stereo system, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, intercom, intercommunication system, jukebox, magnetic pickup, monaural system, mono, needle, nickelodeon, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pickup, public-address system, quadraphonic sound system, radio-phonograph combination, record changer, sound reproduction system, sound truck, squawk box, stereo, stylus, system, tape deck, tape recorder, tone arm, transcription turntable, turntable

record

• record, CD, Clio, Muse of history, accomplishment, accomplishments, account, account rendered, accounting, acme, acta, adventures, album, annals, annual, archives, authority, authorization, autobiography, be-all and end-all, biograph, biographical sketch, biographize, biography, blue ribbon, book, brief, bulletin, calendar, cartridge, carve, case history, cassette, catalog, catalogue, census report, chalk, chalk up, championship, check in, check sheet, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, clock card, command, confessions, confidentially, control, copy, copy out, curriculum vitae, cut, data, date slip, datebook, daybook, deeds, diary, directorship, disc, distance, docket, document, documentation, dominion, dossier, draft, draw up, edit, effectiveness, election returns, electrical transcription, enface, engrave, engross, enroll, enscroll, enter, enumerate, evidence, experiences, extreme, file, fill out, first place, first prize, fortunes, grave, hagiography, hagiology, headship, hegemony, height, highest, historify, historiography, history, impanel, imperium, in confidence, incise, index, indicate, influence, information, inscribe, insert, itemize, jot down, journal, jurisdiction, kingship, leadership, legend, life, life and letters, life story, list, log, lordship, make a memorandum, make a note, make a recension, make an entry, make out, management, mark, mark down, martyrology, mastership, mastery, matriculate, maximum, memento, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorandum, memorial, memorials, minute, minutes, monument, most, narrate, ne plus ultra, necrology, new high, not for publication, notation, note, note down, obituary, off the record, palms, paramountcy, pen, pencil, phonograph record, photobiography, place upon record, platter, poll, post, post up, power, presidency, primacy, privately, proceedings, profile, push the pen, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, read, recense, recite, recording, recount, reduce to writing, register, registry, relate, release, report, reputation, resume, returns, revise, rewrite, rule, say, scribe, scrive, scroll, secretly, set down, single, souvenir, sovereignty, spill ink, spoil paper, statement, story, sub rosa, superscribe, supremacy, sway, tabulate, take down, tally, tape, tape cartridge, tape cassette, tape recording, tape-record, the record, theory of history, time, time book, time chart, time scale, time schedule, time sheet, time study, timecard, timetable, top spot, trace, track record, transactions, transcribe, transcription, type, unofficially, videotape, wax, wire recording, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, yearbook, zenith

recorder

• recorder, CA, CPA, English horn, Flexowriter typewriter, JA, Pandean pipe, Teleplotter, accountant, accountant general, actuary, alphabetical printer, amicus curiae, assessor, auditor, aulos, bank accountant, bank examiner, barmaster, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, bombard, bookkeeper, calculator, certified public accountant, chancellor, chartered accountant, circuit judge, clarinet, clerk, comptroller, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, controller, cost accountant, cost keeper, cromorne, digital graph plotter, double bassoon, double reed, fife, fipple flute, flageolet, flute, hard copy, hautboy, heckelphone, hornpipe, journalizer, judge advocate, judge ordinary, jurat, justice in eyre, justice of assize, lay judge, legal assessor, licorice stick, magnetic recorder, magnetic tape, master, microcards, microfiche, microfilm, military judge, musette, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, ombudsman, ordinary, oscillograph recorder, oscilloscope, panpipe, penny-whistle, piccolo, pipe, police judge, pommer, presiding judge, printout, probate judge, puisne judge, punch cards, punched tape, reader, readout, reckoner, reed, reed instrument, registrar, relay register, sax, saxophone, shawm, single reed, single-reed instrument, sonorophone, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tape reader, teletypewriter, tenoroon, tin-whistle, vice-chancellor, whistle, woods, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument

recording instrument

• recording instrument, Gramophone, Teletype, anemograph, autograph, cash register, chronograph, electrograph, facsimile telegraph, hygrograph, kymograph, oscillograph, pari-mutuel, pari-mutuel machine, pluviograph, pneumatograph, recording barometer, register, seismograph, seismoscope, sound recorder, spectrograph, tape recorder, teletypewriter, telltale, thermograph, thermometer, thermometrograph, ticker, turnstile, voting machine

recording secretary

• recording secretary, amanuensis, calligrapher, chirographer, clerk, copier, copyist, ink spiller, inkslinger, letterer, pen, pencil driver, penman, penner, scribbler, scribe, scrivener, secretary, transcriber, word-slinger, writer

recording

• recording, account, annals, apograph, booking, carbon, carbon copy, cartridge, cassette, catalog, cataloging, chronicle, chronicling, correspondence, disc, documentation, electrical transcription, enlistment, enrollment, entering, entry, fiche, history, impanelment, indexing, inscribing, inscription, insertion, inventory, inventorying, letters, list, listing, logging, manifold, matriculation, memorial, microcopy, microfiche, microform, phonograph record, pipe roll, posting, record, record keeping, recordation, recordative, register, registration, registrational, registry, relic, remains, roll, rolls, roster, rota, rubbing, scroll, self-recording, table, tabulation, tape, tape cartridge, tape cassette, tape recording, tenor, token, trace, tracing, transcript, transcription, transfer, vestige, wax, wire recording

recount

• recount, account, accounts, add up, allegorize, battologize, body count, capitulation, cast up, census, cipher up, communicate, count, count up, describe, detail, election returns, enumerate, fable, fabulize, fictionalize, figure up, fill, foot up, give an encore, go over, go through, head count, impart, inventory, itemize, iterate, landslide, mythicize, mythify, mythologize, narrate, nose count, novelize, official count, pad, particularize, poll, practice, reaffirm, reassert, recap, recapitulate, recapitulation, recite, reckon up, reckoning, recounting, rehash, rehearsal, rehearse, reissue, reiterate, relate, repertory, report, reprint, restate, resume, retail, retell, returns, review, reword, romance, run over, say over, say over again, score up, specify, state, statement, storify, sum, sum up, summarize, summary, summate, summation, summing, summing up, tally up, tautologize, tell, tell a story, tidal wave, tot up, total, total up, tote up, unfold, unfold a tale

recounting

• recounting, account, accounts, body count, capitulation, census, copy, count, critique, dwelling upon, elaboration, going over, head count, inventory, iteration, narration, narrative, nose count, practicing, reaffirmation, recap, recapitulation, recital, reckoning, recount, recountal, rehash, rehearsal, reissue, reiteration, relation, repertory, reprint, restatement, resume, retelling, review, statement, summary, summation, summing, summing up, tale-telling, telling, yarn spinning

recoup

• recoup, atone, get back, kick back, make amends, make good, make reparation, make restitution, make up, make up for, make up to, pay back, pay in kind, quit, ransom, recapture, reclaim, reclaiming, reclamation, recompense, recoupment, recover, recovery, recruit, recuperate, recuperation, recycle, redeem, redemption, redress, refund, regain, regainment, reimburse, remunerate, renovate, reoccupation, reoccupy, repay, replevin, replevy, repossess, repossession, requite, rescue, restoration, restore, resume, resumption, retake, retaking, retrieval, retrieve, revindicate, revindication, revival, revive, salvage, take back, trover, win back

recourse

• recourse, ability, access, admittance, agency, alternative, availability, backup, capacity, capital, dernier ressort, device, devices, disposable resources, entree, expediency, expedient, funds, going between, hope, instrumentality, intermediation, last resort, machinery, makeshift, means, mechanism, mediation, method, pis aller, power, recourses, refuge, remedy, reserve, resort, resorts, resource, resources, service, shift, stock, stopgap, substitute, supply, ways, ways and means, wherewith, wherewithal

recover

• recover, balance, bounce back, bring back, come about, come around, come back, come round, come to, come up smiling, compensate, convalesce, deliver, extract, extricate, free, gain strength, get about, get back, get better, get over, get well, heal, improve, liberate, make a comeback, mend, offset, perk up, pull round, pull through, rally, ransom, reacquire, recapture, reclaim, recoup, recruit, recuperate, recycle, redeem, rediscover, refresh, regain, rejuvenate, release, renew, renovate, reoccupy, replevin, replevy, repossess, rescue, restitute, restore, resume, retake, retrieve, return, revindicate, revive, salvage, save, set free, survive, take back, weather the storm, win back

recovery

• recovery, Great Leap Forward, advance, advancement, amelioration, amendment, ascent, bettering, betterment, boom, boost, bottoming out, business cycle, business fluctuations, bust, comeback, convalescence, cooling off, crisis, deliverance, delivery, depression, downturn, economic cycle, economic expansion, economic growth, enhancement, enrichment, eugenics, euthenics, expanding economy, expansion, extrication, freeing, furtherance, gain, growth, headway, healing, high growth rate, improvement, increase, liberation, lifesaving, lift, low, market expansion, melioration, mend, mending, peak, peaking, pickup, preferment, progress, progression, promotion, prosperity, rally, ransom, recapture, recession, reclaiming, reclamation, recoup, recoupment, recuperation, redemption, regainment, release, reoccupation, replevin, replevy, repossession, rescue, restoration, resumption, retake, retaking, retrieval, retrieve, return, revindication, revival, rise, salvage, salvation, saving, slowdown, slump, trover, upbeat, uplift, upping, upswing, uptrend, upturn, upward mobility

recreant

• recreant, Sabbath-breaker, apostate, arrant coward, atheist, atheistic, backslider, backsliding, bad egg, bad lot, base, black sheep, blackguardly, blasphemer, blasphemous, bolter, caitiff, collaborationist, collaborative, collaborator, convert, craven, dastard, dastardly, defector, degenerate, degraded, derelict, deserter, disaffected, disloyal, dunghill, dunghilly, faithless, fallen, fallen angel, fallen from grace, false, fickle, fifth columnist, impious, inconstant, infamous, irreligious, irreverent, knavish, lapsed, lecher, lost sheep, lost soul, miscreant, mugwump, not true to, notorious, of bad faith, perfidious, pervert, pimp, poltroon, poltroonish, profanatory, profane, profligate, proselyte, pusillanimous, quisling, rascally, rat, recidivist, recidivistic, renegade, renegado, renegate, reprobate, reversionist, roguish, runagate, sacrilegious, sacrilegist, scampish, scapegrace, schismatic, scoundrelly, seceder, secessionist, separatist, sneak, sorry lot, strikebreaker, tergiversant, tergiversating, tergiversator, traitor, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, treasonous, trollop, trothless, turnabout, turncoat, turntail, unbeliever, undutiful, unfaithful, unloyal, unsteadfast, untrue, vile, villainous, whore

recreation

• recreation, amusement, bracer, bracing, cordial, disport, dissipation, distraction, diversion, divertisement, divertissement, ease, enjoyment, enlivenment, entertainment, exhilaration, frolic, fun, fun and games, hilarity, invigoration, jollity, mirth, passe-temps, pastime, pick-me-up, play, pleasure, reanimation, refection, refreshing, refreshment, regale, regalement, reinvigoration, relaxation, renewal, repose, revival, revivescence, revivescency, revivification, rollick, solace, sport, stimulation, tonic, vivification

recrudescence

• recrudescence, amendment, atavism, backset, backward deviation, change of allegiance, change of heart, change of mind, falling back, improvement, lapse, new birth, palingenesis, palingenesy, reanimation, rebirth, reclamation, recurrence, redemption, reform, reformation, refreshment, regeneracy, regenerateness, regeneration, regenesis, regression, rejuvenation, rejuvenescence, relapse, renaissance, renascence, renewal, resurgence, resurrection, resuscitation, return, reversal, reverse, reversion, revival, revivescence, revivescency, revivification, second wind, second youth, setback, throwback

recruit

• recruit, abecedarian, accommodate, add to, afford, alphabetarian, apprentice, arriviste, articled clerk, augment, baby, beat the drums, beginner, bespeak, book, boot, brace up, brief, bring back, bring to, call back, call to arms, call up, catechumen, clothe, commandeer, conscript, contribute, convalesce, deb, debutant, detach, detach for service, donate, draft, drafted man, draftee, emigrant, employ, endow, engage, enlist, enlistee, enroll, enrollee, entrant, fill, fill up, find, fledgling, fortify, freshman, fund, furnish, gain strength, gate-crasher, get back, get better, give, give back, greenhorn, greeny, hire, ignoramus, immigrant, impress, improve, increase, induct, inductee, infant, initiate, intruder, invest, join, keep, learner, levy, list, maintain, make available, make provision for, mend, mobilize, muster, muster in, neophyte, nestling, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, novus homo, parvenu, perk up, pick up, place in, postulant, preengage, prepare, present, press, probationer, probationist, provide, provide for, put back, raise, rally, raw recruit, reactivate, reanimate, rebuild, recall to life, recharge, reconstitute, reconvert, recoup, recuperate, reenact, reestablish, refill, reform, refresh, regain, regenerate, rehabilitate, reheat the ashes, reinforce, reinspire, reinstall, reinstate, reinstitute, reintegrate, reinvest, rejuvenate, rekindle, relight, renew, renovate, repair, replace, replenish, repossess, reserve, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, retain, retrieve, return, revest, revitalize, revive, revivify, rewarm, rookie, selectee, settler, sign on, sign up, sign up for, sleep it off, squatter, stir the embers, stock, store, stowaway, strengthen, subsidize, summon, supplement, supply, support, take into employment, take on, tenderfoot, trainee, turn the corner, tyro, upstart, warm over, warm up, yield

recruitment

• recruitment, bugle call, call, call to arms, call-up, catchword, clarion, clarion call, compulsory military service, conscription, draft, draft call, drafting, enlistment, enrollment, exhortation, go for broke, gung ho, impressment, induction, levy, mobilization, muster, press, rally, rallying cry, rebel yell, recruiting, selective service, slogan, summons, trumpet call, war cry, war whoop, watchword

rectal

• rectal, abdominal, anal, appendical, cardiac, cecal, colic, colonic, coronary, duodenal, enteric, gastric, ileac, intestinal, jejunal, mesogastric, pyloric, splanchnic, visceral

rectangle

• rectangle, Little Joe, biquadrate, four, four-part diaphony, foursome, quad, quadrangle, quadrature, quadrennium, quadrilateral, quadrille, quadrinomial, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, quatrefoil, square, square dance, squaring, tetrad, tetragon, tetragram, tetragrammaton, tetrahedron, tetralogy, tetraphony, tetrapody

rectangular

• rectangular, cube-shaped, cubed, cubic, cubiform, cuboid, diced, elliptical, elongated, foursquare, normal, oblong, oblongated, oblongitudinal, orthodiagonal, orthogonal, orthometric, perpendicular, quadrangular, quadrate, quadriform, quadrilateral, rhombic, rhomboid, right-angle, right-angled, right-angular, square, tetragonal, tetrahedral, trapezohedral, trapezoid

rectifiable

• rectifiable, ameliorable, amendable, correctable, corrigible, curable, emendable, fixable, improvable, medicable, mendable, reclaimable, recoverable, recyclable, redeemable, remediable, repairable, reparable, restorable, retrievable, reversible

rectification

• rectification, amendment, amends, atonement, balancing, commutation, compensation, correction, counteraction, counterbalancing, editing, emendation, expiation, fixing, indemnification, indemnity, lex talionis, making right, mending, offsetting, overhaul, overhauling, recension, recompense, redaction, redress, remedy, repair, repairing, reparation, repayment, rescript, rescription, restitution, retaliation, revampment, revenge, revisal, revise, revised edition, revision, rewrite, rewriting, satisfaction, substitution, troubleshooting

rectify

• rectify, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, adapt, adapt to, adjust, adjust to, agree with, ameliorate, amend, assimilate, assimilate to, atone, attune, be guided by, bend, blue-pencil, bolt, chime in with, clarify, clear, compensate, comply, comply with, compose, conform, coordinate, correct, correspond, cover, cure, cut to, decrassify, depurate, discipline, disentangle, distill, do penance, edit, edulcorate, elute, emend, emendate, equalize, essentialize, expiate, extend, extract, fall in with, fill up, filter, filtrate, fit, fix, flatten, follow, gear to, give and take, give satisfaction, go by, harmonize, homologate, homologize, improve, indemnify, key to, leach, lixiviate, make all square, make amends, make compensation, make conform, make good, make plumb, make right, make uniform, make up for, measure, meet, mend, mold, observe, pay back, pay reparations, percolate, proportion, purify, put in tune, put right, put straight, put to rights, rebuild, recense, recompense, reconcile, redact, redraft, redress, refine, regulate, remedy, remunerate, repair, repay, requite, retaliate, revamp, revise, rework, rewrite, right, rub off corners, screen, separate, set, set right, set straight, set to rights, set up, settle, shape, sieve, sift, similarize, sit up, smooth, spiritualize, square, stand up, straighten, straighten out, straighten up, strain, sublimate, sublime, suit, sync, synchronize, tailor, tally with, trim to, true, true up, try, tune, unbend, uncurl, unkink, unsnarl, winnow, work over, yield

rectilinear

• rectilinear, arrowlike, dead straight, direct, even, flat, horizontal, in a line, level, lineal, linear, rectilineal, right, ruler-straight, smooth, straight, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, streamlined, true, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, uncurved, undeflected, undeviating, undistorted, uninterrupted, unswerving, unturned, upright, vertical

rectitude

• rectitude, angelicalness, assured probity, blamelessness, character, cleanness, conscientiousness, correctness, decency, erectness, estimableness, fairness, godliness, good character, goodness, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness, honesty, honor, honorableness, immaculacy, incorruptibility, integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, moral excellence, moral rectitude, moral strength, morale, morality, nobility, principle, principles, probity, propriety, pureness, purity, reputability, respectability, right conduct, righteousness, rightness, saintlikeness, saintliness, scrupulousness, stainlessness, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unspottedness, uprightness, upstandingness, virtue, virtuousness, worthiness

recto

• recto, Epistle side, acknowledgments, back, back matter, bastard title, bibliography, catch line, catchword, colophon, conservative, contents, contents page, copyright page, decanal side, dedication, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, errata, flyleaf, folio, fore edge, foreword, front matter, half-title page, head, imprint, index, inscription, introduction, leaf, makeup, page, preface, preliminaries, reactionary, reverso, right, right field, right hand, right side, right wing, right-winger, running title, signature, starboard, starboard tack, subtitle, table of contents, tail, text, title, title page, trim size, type page, verso

rector

• rector, DD, Doctor of Divinity, Grand Penitentiary, Holy Father, Holy Joe, abbe, abuna, academic dean, administration, administrator, agent, antipope, archbishop, archdeacon, archpriest, bishop, bishop coadjutor, canon, cardinal, cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, chancellor, chaplain, churchman, clergyman, cleric, clerical, clerk, coadjutor, conductor, curate, cure, dean, dean of men, dean of women, deputy, diocesan, directeur, director, divine, ecclesiarch, ecclesiastic, exarch, governor, headmaster, headmistress, hierarch, high priest, impresario, intendant, man of God, manager, master, metropolitan, military chaplain, minister, padre, papa, parson, pastor, patriarch, penitentiary, pontiff, pope, prebendary, prelate, president, primate, principal, producer, provost, responsible person, reverend, rural dean, servant of God, shepherd, sky pilot, subdean, suffragan, supercargo, supply clergy, supply minister, the Reverend, the very Reverend, tonsured cleric, vicar, vice-chancellor

rectory

• rectory, Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, advowson, benefice, building, care of souls, casa, charge, church house, clergy house, cliff dwelling, consulate, country house, country seat, curacy, cure, dacha, deanery, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, erection, fabric, farm, farmhouse, glebe, hall, house, houseboat, incumbency, lake dwelling, living, living machine, lodge, manor house, manse, parsonage, pastorage, pastorate, penthouse, prefabricated house, prelacy, presbytery, presidential palace, ranch house, roof, skyscraper, sod house, split-level, structure, town house, vicarage

rectum

• rectum, abdomen, anus, appendix, blind gut, bowels, brain, cecum, colon, duodenum, endocardium, entrails, foregut, giblets, gizzard, guts, heart, hindgut, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, midgut, perineum, pump, pylorus, small intestine, spleen, stomach, ticker, tripes, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, works

recumbency

• recumbency, accubation, accumbency, couchancy, debasement, decumbency, depression, loll, lounging, lowness, lying, lying down, proneness, prostration, reclination, reclining, repose, shortness, sprawl, squatness, squattiness, stumpiness, subjacency, supineness

recumbent

• recumbent, accumbent, aslant, aslope, atilt, bevel, beveled, bias, biased, canting, careening, couchant, couche, crawling, crouched, debased, decumbent, depressed, draped, flat, groveling, horizontal, inclinational, inclinatory, inclined, inclining, knee-high, knocked flat, laid low, leaning, listing, lolling, lounging, low, low-built, low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured, lying, lying down, neap, out of plumb, out of square, pitched, procumbent, prone, prostrate, raking, reclining, reposing, resupine, runty, shelving, shelvy, short, sideling, sidelong, slant, slanted, slanting, slantways, slantwise, sloped, sloping, sprawled, sprawling, spread, squat, squatty, stooped, stretched out, stumpy, supine, tilted, tilting, tipped, tipping, tipsy, unelevated

recuperate

• recuperate, ameliorate, brace up, come about, come round, convalesce, gain, gain strength, get back, get better, get well, heal, improve, look up, mend, perk up, pick up, pull through, rally, ransom, recapture, reclaim, recoup, recover, recruit, redeem, regain, renovate, reoccupy, replevin, replevy, repossess, restore, resume, retake, retrieve, revindicate, revive, sleep it off, survive, take back, turn the corner

recuperation

• recuperation, comeback, convalescence, rally, ransom, recapture, reclaiming, reclamation, recoup, recoupment, recovery, redemption, regainment, reoccupation, replevin, replevy, repossession, restoration, resumption, retake, retaking, retrieval, retrieve, return, revindication, revival, salvage, trover

recur

• recur, alternate, be here again, circle, come again, come and go, come around, come back, come round, come round again, come up again, continue, cycle, echo, go back, intermit, keep coming, occur often, oscillate, pulsate, pulse, react, reappear, reoccur, repeat, resound, resume, return, return to mind, reverberate, revert, revolve, roll around, rotate, turn, undulate, vibrate, wheel, wheel around

recurrence

• recurrence, Indian file, alternation, array, articulation, atavism, backset, backward deviation, bank, beat, buzz, catena, catenation, chain, chain reaction, chaining, concatenation, connection, consecution, continuum, course, cycle, cyclicalness, descent, doubling, drone, duplication, echo, endless belt, endless round, falling back, file, filiation, frequency, gamut, gradation, hum, imitation, intermittence, intermittency, lapse, line, lineage, meter, monotone, nexus, oscillation, pendulum, pendulum motion, periodicalness, periodicity, piston motion, plagiarism, plenum, powder train, progression, pulsation, queue, quotation, range, rank, reappearance, rebirth, recrudescence, redoubling, reduplication, reecho, regression, regular wave motion, regurgitation, reincarnation, relapse, renewal, reoccurrence, repetition, reproduction, resumption, reticulation, return, reversal, reverse, reversion, rhythm, rotation, round, routine, row, run, scale, seasonality, sequence, series, setback, single file, spectrum, string, succession, swath, thread, throwback, tier, train, undulation, windrow

recurrent

• recurrent, alternate, articulated, automatic, beaten, beating, catenated, ceaseless, circling, common, concatenated, connected, constant, continual, continued, continuing, continuous, cyclic, cyclical, direct, endless, epochal, even, ever-recurring, every other, everyday, featureless, frequent, frequentative, gapless, habitual, hackneyed, haunting, immediate, incessant, indelible, interminable, intermittent, isochronal, isochronous, iterative, joined, jointless, linked, many, many times, measured, metronomic, monotonous, nagging, never-ending, nonstop, not rare, obsessive, of common occurrence, oft-repeated, oftentime, ordinary, oscillatory, perennial, periodic, periodical, persistent, prevalent, pulsing, reappearing, reciprocal, recurring, regular, repeated, repetitious, repetitive, returning, revenant, rhythmic, rotary, round-the-clock, routine, running, seamless, seasonal, serial, serried, smooth, stable, steady, stereotyped, straight, thematic, thick-coming, trite, twenty-four-hour, ubiquitous, unbroken, unceasing, undifferentiated, undulant, undulatory, unending, unforgettable, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unrelieved, unremitting, unstopped, usual, wavelike, well-trodden, well-worn, wheeling

recusant

• recusant, alienated, antiestablishment, at odds with, at variance with, breakaway, contrary, counter-culture, deviant, differing, disagreeing, disobedient, dissentient, dissenting, dissident, froward, in opposition, indisciplined, lawless, naughty, nonconformable, nonconforming, nonobservant, obstinate, opposing, recalcitrant, refractory, sectarian, sectary, self-willed, transgressive, unadaptable, unadjustable, uncompliant, uncomplying, unconforming, underground, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, unsubmissive, violative, wayward, willful

red baiting

• red baiting, Jim Crow, Jim Crow law, McCarthyism, anti-Semitism, apartheid, black power, black supremacy, chauvinism, class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war, color bar, color line, discrimination, fascism, harassment, harrying, hounding, know-nothingism, male chauvinist, minority prejudice, oppression, persecution, race hatred, race prejudice, race snobbery, racial discrimination, racialism, racism, segregation, sex discrimination, sexism, social barrier, social discrimination, superpatriotism, tormenting, ultranationalism, victimization, white power, white supremacy, witch-hunt, witch-hunting, xenophobia

red blooded

• red blooded, beefy, bouncing, bulldoggish, doughty, dynamic, energetic, forceful, forcible, forcy, full-blooded, full-strength, game, gamy, gritty, gutsy, gutty, hale, hard, hard as nails, hardy, hearty, hefty, husky, iron-hard, lusty, mettlesome, mighty, nervy, obstinate, pertinacious, plucky, potent, powerful, puissant, resolute, robust, robustious, rugged, spirited, spiritful, spunky, stalwart, steely, stout, strapping, strenuous, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, sturdy, tenacious, tough, vigorous, vital

red cent

• red cent, C, C-note, G, G-note, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, buck, button, cartwheel, cent, century, copper, curio, dime, dollar, dollar bill, farce, farthing, feather, fifty cents, fig, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, fleabite, folderol, four bits, fribble, frippery, frogskin, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, grand, hair, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, halfpenny, hill of beans, hundred-dollar bill, iron man, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, mill, minikin, mockery, molehill, nickel, penny, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, quarter, rap, row of pins, rush, sawbuck, shit, silver dollar, skin, smacker, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two cents, two-dollar bill, two-spot, twopence, whim-wham, yard

red complexioned

• red complexioned, blooming, blowzed, blowzy, burnt, florid, flush, flushed, full-blooded, glowing, hectic, red-faced, red-fleshed, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rubicund, ruddy, ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced, sanguine, sunburned

red faced

• red faced, abashed, ashamed, blooming, blowzed, blowzy, blushing, burnt, chagrined, chapfallen, crestfallen, crushed, embarrassed, florid, flush, flushed, full-blooded, glowing, hangdog, hectic, humbled, humiliated, mortified, out of countenance, red-complexioned, red-fleshed, rosy, rosy-cheeked, rubicund, ruddy, ruddy-complexioned, ruddy-faced, sanguine, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sunburned

red flag

• red flag, Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, beacon, beacon fire, bell, bell buoy, blinker, blue peter, buoy, caution light, danger sign, early symptom, falling barometer, flare, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, gathering clouds, glance, go light, gong buoy, green light, heliograph, high sign, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, kick, leer, marker beacon, nod, nudge, omen, parachute flare, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, precursor, preliminary sign, premonitory sign, premonitory symptom, prodroma, prodrome, quarantine flag, radio beacon, red light, rocket, sailing aid, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, skull and crossbones, spar buoy, stop light, storm petrel, stormy petrel, symptom, the nod, the wink, thundercloud, thunderhead, touch, traffic light, traffic signal, warning sign, warning signal, watch fire, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink, yellow flag, yellow jack

red handed

• red handed, blatantly, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, cruel, cutthroat, flagrante delicto, gory, homicidal, in flagrante delicto, in the act, murderous, openly, red-hand, sanguinary, self-destructive, slaughterous, suicidal

red herring

• red herring, anguille, art, artful dodge, artifice, blind, caviar, chicanery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, craft, cute trick, deceit, design, device, dodge, eel, expedient, fakement, feint, fetch, fish, fish eggs, gambit, game, gimmick, grift, intrigue, jugglery, kipper, kippered salmon, knavery, little game, maneuver, move, plot, ploy, poisson, racket, roe, ruse, scheme, seafood, shift, sleight, smoked herring, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, tactic, trick, trickery, wile, wily device

red hot

• red hot, abandoned, ablaze, afire, ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, boiling over, breathless, broiling, burning, burning hot, burning with excitement, canicular, committed, cordial, dedicated, delirious, devoted, devout, drunk, earnest, ebullient, enthusiastic, excited, exuberant, faithful, fanatic, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, flaming, flushed, glowing, grilling, hard-core, hearty, heated, hectic, het up, hot, hot as fire, hot as hell, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, in earnest, in rut, inflamed, intense, intent, intent on, intoxicated, keen, like a furnace, like an oven, lively, loyal, madcap, on fire, overheated, overwarm, parching, passionate, perfervid, piping hot, resolute, roasting, scalding, scorching, searing, seething, serious, sexually excited, simmering, sincere, sizzling hot, smoking hot, spirited, steaming, steamy, sudorific, sweating, sweaty, sweltering, sweltry, toasting, torrid, totally committed, unrestrained, vehement, vigorous, warm, white-hot, zealous