List 41 Flashcards
respite
respite N. /暂缓/interval of relief; time for rest; delay in punishment. After working nonstop on this project for three straight months. I need a respite! For David, the two weeks vacationing in New Zealand were a delightful respite from the pressures of his job.
resplendent
resplendentADJ. /辉煌的；光辉的/dazzling; glorious; brilliant. While all the adults were commenting how glorious the emperor looked in his resplendent new clothes, one little boy was heard to say, “But he’s naked!”
responsiveness
responsivenessN. /响应的/state of reacting readily to appeals, orders, etc. The audience cheered and applauded, delighting the performers by its responsiveness.
restitution
restitution N. /归还；补偿/reparation; indemnification. He offered to make restitution for the window broken by his son.
restive
restiveADJ. /焦躁不安的；难以压抑的/restlessly impatient; obstinately resisting control. Waiting impatiently in line to see Santa Claus, even the best-behaved children grow restive and start to fidget.
resumption
resumptionN. /恢复；重新开始/taking up again; recommencement. During summer break, Don had not realized how much he missed university life: at the resumption of classes, however, he felt marked excitement and pleasure. resume,V.
resurge
resurgeV. /复活/rise again; flow to and fro. It was startling to see the spirit of nationalism resurge as the Soviet Union disintegrated into a loose federation of ethnic and national groups. resurgence, N.
retaliation
retaliationN. /报仇/repayment in kind (usually for bad treatment). Because everyone knew the Princeton Band had stolen Brown’s mascot, the whole Princeton student body expected some sort of retaliation from Brown. retaliate,V.
retentive
retentiveADJ. /保持的；记性好的/holding; having a good memory. The pupil did not need to spend much time studying, for he had a retentive mind and remembered all he read.
reticence
reticenceN. /不动声色的；深藏不露的；沉默寡言的/reserve; uncommunicativeness; inclination to silence. Fearing his competitors might get advance word about his plans from talkative staff members, Hughes preferred reticence from his employees to loquacity. reticent,ADJ.
retinue
retinueN. /随行人员；扈从/following; attendants. The queen’s retinue followed her down the aisle.
retract
retractV. /撤回，撤退/withdraw; take back. When I saw how Fred and his fraternity brothers had trashed the frat house, I decided to retract my offer to let them use our summer cottage for the weekend. retraction, N.
retrench
retrenchV. /裁减，削减；紧缩，节约/cut down; economize. In order to be able to afford to send their children to college, they would have to retrench. retrenchment, N.
retribution
retributionN. /复仇；补偿；惩罚/vengeance; compensation; punishment for offenses. The evangelist maintained that an angry deity would exact retribution from the sinners.
retroactive
retroactiveADJ. /反动的；（法律）追溯的（由制定之日前的某一天生效）/of a law that dates back to a period before its enactment. Because the law was retroactive to the first of the year, we found she was eligible for the pension.
retrograde
retrogradeV. /倒退的/go backwards; degenerate. instead of advancing, our civilization seems to have retrograded in ethics and culture. alsoADJ.
revelry
revelryN. /狂欢/boisterous merrymaking. New Year’s Eve is a night of revelry
reverent
reverentADJ. /尊敬的；可敬的/respectful; worshipful. Though I bow my head in church and recite the prayers, sometimes I don’t feel properly reverent. revere,V.
reverie
reverieN. /冥想；发呆；白日梦/daydream; musing. He was awakened from his reverie by the teacher’s question.
revert
revertV. /回复；故态复萌/relapse; backslide; turn back to. Most of the time Andy seemed sensitive and mature, but occasionally he would revert to his smart-alecky, macho, adolescent self.
revile
revileV. /辱骂，谩骂，诽谤/attack with abusive language; vilify. Though most of his contemporaries reviled Captain Kidd as a notorious, bloody-handed pirate, some of his fellow merchant-captains believed him innocent of his alleged crimes.
revulsion
revulsionN. /剧变（情感的）；抽回；收手/sudden violent change of feeling; reaction. Many people in this country who admired dictatorships underwent a revulsion when they realized what Hitler and Mussolini were trying to do.
rhapsodize
rhapsodizeV. /狂热地描述；写狂想文，作狂想曲/to speak or write in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner. She greatly enjoyed her Hawaiian vacation and rhapsodized about it for weeks.
ribald
ribaldADJ. /下流的；放荡的；亵渎的/wanton; profane. He sang a ribald song that offended many of the more prudish listeners.
rider
rider N. /附文；扶手/amendment or clause added to a legislative bill. Senator Foghorn said he would support Senator Filibuster’s tax reform bill only if Filibuster agreed to add an antipollution riderto the bill.
rife
rifeADJ. /普遍的/abundant; current. In the face of the many rumors of scandal, which are rife at the moment, it is best to remain silent.
rift
riftN. /裂缝；破口/opening; break. The plane was lost in the stormy sky until the pilot saw the city through a rift in the clouds.
rig
rigV. /配备；装备/fix or manipulate. The ward boss was able to rig the election by bribing people to stuff the ballot boxes with ballots marked in his candidate’s favor.
rile
rileV. /激怒/vex; irritate; muddy. Red had a hair-trigger temper: he was an easy man to rile.
riveting
rivetingADJ. /迷人的/absorbing; engrossing. The reviewer described Byatt’s novel Possession as a riveting tale, one so absorbing that he had finished it in a single night.
rivulet
rivulet N. /小溪/small stream. As the rains continued, the small trickle of water running down the hillside grew into a rivulet that threatened to wash away a portion of the slope.
robust
robustADJ. /健壮的/vigorous; strong. After pumping iron and taking karate for six months, the little old lady was so robust that she could break a plank with her fist.
roil
roilV. /搅动（使水变浑）;激怒/to make liquids murky by stirring up sediment. Be careful when you pour not to roil the wine; if you stir up the sediment you’ll destroy the flavor.
roster
rosterN. /列表/list. They print the roster of players in the season’s program.
rostrum
rostrumN. /演讲台；讲道坛/platform for speech-making; pulpit. The crowd murmured angrily and indicated that they did not care to listen to the speaker who was approaching the rostrum.
rote
roteN. /生搬硬套；死记硬背/repetition. He recited the passage by rote and gave no indication he understood what he was saying.
rotundity
rotundity N. /圆形，球状；洪亮的演讲/roundness; sonorousness of speech. Washington Irving emphasized the rotundity of the governor by describing his height and circumference.
rousing
rousingADJ. /活跃的；煽动的/lively; stirring. “And now, let’s have a rousing welcome for TV’s own Roseanne Barr, who’ll lead us in a rousing rendition of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner.”’
rout
routV. /吓跑；赶出；击退/stampede; drive out. The reinforcements were able to rout the enemy. also N.
rubble
rubbleN. /碎片/broken fragments. Ten years after World War II, some of the rubble left by enemy bombings could still be seen.
ruddy
ruddyADJ. /红的；红润的，白里透红的；健康的/reddish; healthy-looking. Santa Claus’s ruddy cheeks nicely complement Rudolph the Reindeer’s bright red nose.
rudimentary
rudimentaryADJ. /原始的；最初的；原来的/not developed; elementary; crude. Although my grandmother’s English vocabulary was limited to a few rudimentary phrases, she always could make herself understood.
rue
rueV. /懊悔；后悔；感伤/regret; lament; mourn. Tina rued the night she met Tony and wondered how she ever fell for such a jerk. rueful,ADJ.
ruffian
ruffianN. /流氓；恶棍；痞子/bully; scoundrel. The ruffians threw stones at the police.
ruminate
ruminateV. /反复咀嚼；消化；深思；反刍/chew over and over (mentally, or, like cows, physically); mull over; ponder. Unable to digest quickly the baffling events of the day, Reuben ruminated about them till four in the morning.
rummage
rummageV. /到处翻寻/ransack; thoroughly search. When we rummaged through the trunks in the attic, we found many souvenirs of our childhood days. also N.
ruse
ruseN. /技巧；策略，计谋/trick; stratagem. You will not be able to fool your friends with such an obvious ruse.
rustic
rusticADJ. /乡村的；笨拙的，不舒服的/pertaining to country people; uncouth. The backwoodsman looked out of place in his rustic attire.
saboteur
saboteurN. /破坏分子；怠工者/one who commits sabotage; destroyer of property. Members of the Resistance acted as saboteurs, blowing up train lines to prevent supplies from reaching the Nazi army.
saccharine
saccharineADJ. /糖精的；代糖的；极甜的/cloyingly sweet. She tried to ingratiate herself, speaking sweetly and smiling a saccharine smile.
sacrilegious
sacrilegiousADJ. /亵渎的，天谴的/desecrating; profane. His stealing of the altar cloth was a very sacrilegious act.
sacrosanct
sacrosanctADJ. /非常神圣的/most sacred; inviolable. The brash insurance salesman invaded the sacrosanct privacy of the office of the president of the company.
