recapitulate
verb · summarize briefly
Example: Let's recapitulate the main ideas0 core K5 entries + 0 reading-linked candidates + 0 WordNet reference entries · local review
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recede
verb · become faint or more distant
Example: the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew olderreceived
adjective · widely accepted as true or worthy- Economist
Example: a received moral idearecency
noun · the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
recent
adjective · new
Example: recent graduatesrecently
adverb · in the recent past
Example: he was in Paris recentlyrecherche
adjective · lavishly elegant and refined
reciprocally
adverb · in an inverse or contrary manner- F.A.Geldard
Example: inversely relatedreclaim
verb · overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable
Example: He tames lions for the circusreclassify
verb · classify anew, change the previous classification
Example: The zoologists had to reclassify the mollusks after they found new speciesrecode
verb · put into a different code; rearrange mentally
Example: People recode and restructure information in order to remember itrecognised
adjective · generally approved or compelling recognition
Example: several accepted techniques for treating the conditionrecognizable
adjective · capable of being recognized
recognizably
adverb · to a recognizable degree
Example: he was recognizably slimmer nowrecoil
noun · a movement back from an impact
recollective
adjective · good at remembering
Example: a retentive mindrecommend
verb · make attractive or acceptable
Example: Honesty recommends any personrecommit
verb · send back to a committee
Example: The bill was recommitted three times in the Housereconcile
verb · bring into consonance or accord
Example: harmonize one's goals with one's abilitiesrecondition
verb · bring into an improved condition
Example: He reconditioned the old appliancesreconnoitre
verb · explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
record album
noun · an album for holding phonograph records
recoup
verb · retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments
Example: My employer is withholding taxesrecovered
adjective · found after being lost
recreate
verb · give new life or energy to
Example: A hot soup will revive merecrudescent
adjective · the revival of an unfortunate situation after a period of abatement
Example: the patient presented with a case of recrudescent gastralgiarectifiable
adjective · capable of being repaired or rectified
Example: reparable damage to the carrecuperate
verb · get over an illness or shock
Example: The patient is recuperatingrecycle
verb · use again after processing
Example: We must recycle the cardboard boxesred brigades
noun · a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that arose out of a student protest movement in the late 1960s; wants to separate Italy from NATO and advocates violence in the service of class warfare and revolution; mostly inactive since 1989
red helleborine
noun · orchid of Mediterranean and Asia having a lax spike of bright rose-pink flowers
red-blind
adjective · inability to see the color red or to distinguish red and bluish-green
red-breasted merganser
noun · widely distributed merganser of America and Europe
red-coated
adjective · used of British soldiers during the American Revolutionary War because of their red coats
red-eye
verb · travel on an overnight flight
Example: The candidate red-eyed from California to the East Coast the night before the election to give a last stump speechred-faced
adjective · (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
Example: crimson with furyred-rimmed
adjective · rimmed with red
Example: your red-rimmed eyes reveal that you have been cryingredback vole
noun · any of several voles of mountainous regions of Eurasia and America
redbird cactus
noun · low tropical American shrub having powerful emetic properties
reddish-gray
adjective · of grey tinged with red
reddish-grey
adjective · of grey tinged with red
rededicate
verb · dedicate anew
Example: They were asked to rededicate themselves to their countryredeemed
adjective · saved from the bondage of sin
redemptory
adjective · of or relating to or resulting in redemption- E.K.Brown
Example: a redemptive theory about liferediscover
verb · discover again
Example: I rediscovered the books that I enjoyed as a childredouble
verb · make twice as great or intense
Example: The screaming redoubledreduce
verb · take off weight
reefy
adjective · full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals
Example: reefy shallowsreel off
verb · recite volubly or extravagantly
Example: He could recite the names of all the chemical elementsreface
verb · provide with a new facing
Example: The building was refaced with beautiful stonesrefine
verb · make more complex, intricate, or richer
Example: refine a design or patternreflexive pronoun
noun · a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects the agent
refloat
verb · set afloat again
Example: refloat a grounded boatrefocus
verb · put again into focus or focus more sharply
Example: refocus the image until it is very sharpreforge
verb · cast or model anew
Example: She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home statereformulate
verb · formulate or develop again, of an improved theory or hypothesis
refractive
adjective · capable of changing the direction (of a light or sound wave)
refresh
verb · make fresh again
refreshfully
adverb · in a manner that relieves fatigue and restores vitality
Example: the air was refreshingly coolrefreshingly
adverb · in a pleasantly novel manner
Example: she was refreshingly free from shyness