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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