| reprieve | (noun) the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment | Synonyms: respite |
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| (noun) a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence) | - |
| (noun) an interruption in the intensity or amount of something | Synonyms: abatement, hiatus, respite, suspension |
| (noun) a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort | Synonyms: respite |
| (verb) relieve temporarily | - |
| (verb) postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution | Synonyms: respite |
| reprimand | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprehension, reproof, reproval |
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| (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, criminate |
| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, scold, take to task, trounce |
| reprint | (noun) a separately printed article that originally appeared in a larger publication | Synonyms: offprint, separate |
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| (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reissue, reprinting |
| (verb) print anew | Synonyms: reissue |
| reprinting | (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reissue, reprint |
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| reprisal | (noun) a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime | - |
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| reprise | (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, repeat, reprize |
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| reprize | (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, repeat, reprise |
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| reproach | (noun) a mild rebuke or criticism | - |
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| (noun) disgrace or shame | - |
| (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: upbraid |
| reproacher | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reprover, upbraider |
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| reproachful | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, admonitory, reproving |
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| reproachfully | (adverb) in a reproving or reproachful manner | Synonyms: reprovingly |
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| reprobate | (adjective) deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good | Synonyms: depraved, perverse, perverted |
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| (noun) a person without moral scruples | Synonyms: miscreant |
| (verb) reject (documents) as invalid | - |
| (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, objurgate |
| (verb) abandon to eternal damnation | - |
| reprobation | (noun) severe disapproval | - |
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| (noun) rejection by God; the state of being condemned to eternal misery in Hell | - |
| reprocess | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: recycle, reuse |
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| reproduce | (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: multiply, procreate |
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| (verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: regurgitate |
| (verb) make a copy or equivalent of | - |
| (verb) recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc. | - |
| reproducer | (noun) an audio system that can reproduce and amplify signals to produce sound | - |
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| reproducibility | (noun) the quality of being reproducible | Synonyms: duplicability |
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| reproducible | (adjective) capable of being reproduced | Synonyms: consistent |
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| reproducibly | (adverb) in a manner that is reproducible | - |
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| reproduction | (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: breeding, facts of life, procreation |
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| (noun) the act of making copies | Synonyms: replication |
| (noun) copy that is not the original; something that has been copied | Synonyms: replica, replication |
| (noun) recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall | Synonyms: reproductive memory |
| (noun) the process of generating offspring | - |
| reproductive | (adjective) producing new life or offspring | Synonyms: generative, procreative |
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| reproof | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproval |
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| (verb) take to task | Synonyms: admonish, reprove |
| reproval | (noun) an act or expression of criticism and censure | Synonyms: rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof |
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| reprove | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: admonish, reproof |
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| reprover | (noun) someone who finds fault or imputes blame | Synonyms: rebuker, reproacher, upbraider |
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| reproving | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonishing, admonitory, reproachful |
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| reprovingly | (adverb) in a reproving or reproachful manner | Synonyms: reproachfully |
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| reptile | (noun) any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms | Synonyms: reptilian |
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| reptilian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Reptilia | - |
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| (noun) any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms | Synonyms: reptile |
| republic | (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: commonwealth, democracy |
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| (noun) a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch | - |
| republican | (adjective) relating to or belonging to the Republican Party | - |
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| (adjective) having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government | - |
| (noun) an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy) | - |
| republicanism | (noun) the political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government | - |
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| republication | (noun) the act of publishing again | Synonyms: republishing |
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| (noun) something that has been published again; a fresh publication (as of a literary work) | - |
| republish | (verb) revive (a cancelled will or a libel) | - |
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| (verb) publish again | - |
| republishing | (noun) the act of publishing again | Synonyms: republication |
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| repudiate | (verb) refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid | - |
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| (verb) cast off | Synonyms: disown, renounce |
| (verb) reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust | - |
| (verb) refuse to recognize or pay | - |
| repudiation | (noun) the exposure of falseness or pretensions | Synonyms: debunking |
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| (noun) rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid | Synonyms: renunciation |
| (noun) refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities) | - |
| repudiative | (adjective) rejecting emphatically; e.g. refusing to pay or disowning | - |
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| repugn | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contend, contest |
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| repugnance | (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repulsion, revulsion |
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| (noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness |
| repugnant | (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repulsive |
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| repulse | (noun) an instance of driving away or warding off | Synonyms: rebuff, snub |
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| (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, rebuff, repel |
| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, drive, force back, push back, repel |
| (verb) be repellent to; cause aversion in | Synonyms: repel |
| repulsion | (noun) the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand | Synonyms: standoff |
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| (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repugnance, revulsion |
| (noun) the force by which bodies repel one another | Synonyms: repulsive force |
| repulsive | (adjective) possessing the ability to repel | - |
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| (adjective) offensive to the mind | Synonyms: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant |
| (adjective) so extremely ugly as to be terrifying | Synonyms: hideous |
| repulsively | (adverb) in an offensive and hateful manner | Synonyms: abominably, detestably, odiously |
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| repulsiveness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, lousiness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness |
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| repulsor | (noun) a fictional anti-gravity device in the Star Wars Universe. | Synonyms: repulsorlift, repulsorlift engine |
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| (noun) A repulsor is either one of two drives located in the gauntlets of Iron Man's armor; they have been referred to as being magnetic, a blast of charged particles, and as a force beam. | - |
| repulsorlift | (noun) a fictional anti-gravity device in the Star Wars Universe. | Synonyms: repulsor, repulsorlift engine |
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| repurchase | (noun) the act of purchasing back something previously sold | Synonyms: buyback, redemption |
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| (verb) buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away | Synonyms: buy back |
| reputability | (noun) honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation | Synonyms: respectability |
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| reputable | (adjective) having a good reputation | - |
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| reputably | (adverb) in a reputable manner | - |
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| reputation | (noun) the general estimation that the public has for a person | Synonyms: report |
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| (noun) the state of being held in high esteem and honor | Synonyms: repute |
| (noun) notoriety for some particular characteristic | - |
| repute | (noun) the state of being held in high esteem and honor | Synonyms: reputation |
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| (verb) look on as or consider | Synonyms: be known as, esteem, know as, look on, look upon, regard as, take to be, think of |
| reputedly | (adverb) by repute; according to general belief | - |
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