revel:
v. take great pleasure or delight | revelry:
n. merrymaking, especially, festivity or jollity |
reverent:
a. respectful; worshipful; impressed with veneration or deep respect | reverie:
n. daydream; state of abstracted musing; absent-minded dreaming while awake |
revile:
v. attack with abusive language; vilify | revocable:
a. capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. |
rhapsodize:
v. speak or write in exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner | ribald:
a. coarse or indecent; humorously vulgar or offensive |
rigidity:
n. stiffness; physical property of being stiff and resisting bending | rind:
n. external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell |
rivet:
n. metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together | rivulet:
n. small brook or stream; streamlet |
roan:
a. having a chestnut, bay, or sorrel coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray; said of a horse | roil:
v. make liquids murky by stirring up sediment |
rote:
n. memorizing process using routine or repetition; sound of surf breaking on the shore | rout:
v. put to disorderly flight or retreat; drive out; cause to flee; defeat overwhelmingly |
rove:
n. act of wandering about, over, around, or through | rover:
n. crewed or uncrewed vehicle, used especially in exploring planet or stars; pirate vessel |
ruffian:
n. bully; lawless and cruel; cruel and brutal person or gangster | ruminate:
v. chew over and over mentally, or like cows physically; mull over; ponder |
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