R (Dictionary cum Vocabulary Word List for Exams)
Rabid: furious mad
Example: [a rabid feminist]
Raconteur: story teller
Example: [a brilliant raconteur]
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Racy: Exciting or exhilarating to the mind.
Radiance: brilliance, happiness, warmth, glow, joy
Example: [But, as when a cloud suddenly passes over the sun, Aranka’s bright face lost its radiance the next moment]
Radiate: To extend in all directions as from a source or focus.
Radical: fundamental revolutionary
Example: [a radical thinker]
Radix: That from or on which something is developed.
Ragamuffin: person wearing tattered clothes
Example: [a ragamuffin was begging for food]
Rail: harangue, rant, to complain angrily
Example: [He railed against the injustices of the system]
Raillery: banter, teasing, mockery, joke, satire
Example: [Her raillery, like the raillery of princes, was without fear of retort]
Raiment: clothing
Example: [I have no raiment fit to wear for the party]
Rakish: sporty stylish
Example: [he wore his hat at a rakish angle]
Rally: assemble
Example: [an election rally]
Ramification: consequence
Example: [Have you considered all the ramifications of your suggestion]
Ramify: To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions
Example: [when the plant begins to ramify, it is advisable to nip off most of the branches]
Ramose: being made up of branches, sending out branches
Example: [a selection of the tallest and least ramose trees]
Ramp: inclined plane slope
Example: [ramps are built in hospitals so that people on wheel chairs can move easily]
Rampant: raging unbridled
Example: [rampant corruption]
Rampart: castle to protect it a large wall built round a town
Example: [we watched from the rampart as the fighting continued]
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Ramshackle: falling to pieces dilapidated
Example: [a ramshackle old shed]
Rancid: rotten
Example: [He lifts it down and removes several pieces of the rancid, dried meat stored in it]
Rancor: Malice.
Rancor (Rancour): dislike resentment
Example: [They cheated me, but I feel no rancor towards them]
Rancorous: resentful, bitter, showing intense resentment
Example: [rancorous debate]
Rankle: resentment cause bitterness
Example: [It still rankles that she got promoted, and I didn’t]
Rant: scold rage
Example: [He’s always ranting about the government]
Rapacious: avaricious, grasping, greedy
Example: [her rapacious appetite for fame]
Rapid: Having great speed.
Rapidity: speed
Rapine: ravishment, plundering, despoiling, stealing, robbery, pillage
Example: [One of them, who had been concerned in some act of violence or rapine, had given information against his companions]
Rapport: empathy, affinity, relationship of trust and respect
Example: [to build rapport with someone]
Rapprochement: reconciliation
Example: [rapprochement between the warring factions]
Rapt: deeply absorbed
Example: [The children watched with rapt attention]
Raptorial: Seizing and devouring living prey.
Rarefied: as of a gas made less dense
Example: [the mountain climbers had difficulty in breathing in the rarefied atmosphere]
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