R's Flashcards
Radiometric, radioactive, carbon, or radiocarbon dating
Methods for determining the approximate age of an ancient object by measuring the amount of radioactivity it contains.
Recalcitrant
Not obedient, resisting authority, hard to manage.
The aspiring kindergarten teacher was not prepared for a roomful of 20 recalcitrant children who wouldn’t even sit down, much less learn the words to “Holding Hands Around the World.”
Recapitulate
Summarize, repeat in a concise way.
I’m sorry I had to leave your presentation to take a call. I only have a minute, but can you recapitulate what you’re proposing?
Receptive
Capable of or ready and willing to receive, as in receptive to a new idea.
Reconvene
Gather, come together again (or call together again), such as for a meeting, as in Let’s break for lunch and reconvene at 1pm.
Redress
Setting something right after a misdeed, compensation or relief for injury or wrongdoing (noun); correct, set right, remedy (verb).
My client was an innocent victim of medical malpractice. As would anyone who had to wrong leg amputated in surgery, he is seeking financial redress.
Refute
Prove to be false.
She’s not a very valuable member of the debate team, actually - she loves making speeches, but she’s not very good at refuting opponents’ arguments.
Rehash
Discuss or bring up (an idea or topic) again without adding anything new.
We’re not going to agree, so why rehash the issue?
Remedial
Providing a remedy, curative; correcting a deficient skill.
After harassment occurs in the workplace, it is important that the company take remedial action right away, warning or firing the offender as appropriate, and making sure the complainant’s concerns are addressed.
For those who need remedial reading help, we offer a summer school program that aims to help students read at grade level.
Reminiscent
Looking back at the past, reminding of the past. A reminiscent person is remembering something; an old-fashioned object could be reminiscent of an earlier time.
Render
Give, submit, surrender; translate; declare formally; cause to become. To render harmless to make harmless.
When you render your past due payments, we will turn your phone back on.
Only in her second year of Japanese, she was unable to render the classic poem into English.
The judge rendered (submitted) a verdict that rendered (made) us speechless.
Repercussions
Consequences (usually negative).
One of the worries about the financial industry is that irresponsible executives rarely suffer lasting repercussions.
Respectively
In the order given. This is a very useful word! The sentence “Smith and Jones wrote the books 7 Success Tips and Productivity Rocks” is ambiguous - did they work together on both or did they each write one of the books? “Smith and Jones wrote the books 7 Success Tips and Productivity Rocks, respectively” answers the questions -Smith wrote 7 Success Tips and Jones wrote Productivity Rocks. The word is typically used to match up two things to two other things, in the same order.
His poems “An Ode to the Blossoms of Sheffield” and “An Entreaty to Ladies All Too Prim” were written in 1756 in 1758, respectively.
Reticent
Not talking much; private (of a person), restrained, reserved.
She figured that, to rise to the top, it was best to be reticent about her personal life; as a result, her colleagues did not know whether she was in a relationship or what she liked to do outside of work.
Returns
Profits.
