refutation; rebuttal; retort
to increase (an amount of money or goods)
preliminary inspection; having a look in advance; preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes); siding (on a house); clapboard
rest; break; recess; intermission
scene; setting; scene (in a movie, play); shot; state of the market
refusal; rejection; denial; veto
right in the middle (of); midst; height
recognition; acknowledgement; acknowledgment; approval; consent; agreement
to miss; to overlook; to let pass (a matter); to overlook (e.g. a wrongdoing); to pass up (e.g. an opportunity); to let (a good ball) go by
remembering; recollection; recall; to remember; to recall; to recollect
barren; sterile; infertile; unproductive (e.g. discussion); fruitless
wild enthusiasm; being crazy about
sentence; composition; text; the literary arts (as opposed to the military arts); academia; statement
unavoidably; inevitably; necessarily; reluctantly; against one's will
confections; sweets; candy; cake
(not) well; (not) properly; (not) enough; (not) sufficiently; (not) satisfactorily; (not) decently
to address (someone); to accost a person; to talk (to someone); to begin to talk; to start a conversation
to close (at a certain point); to cut short; to round up (number); to revalue (currency)
engagingly; cordially; amiably; sociably; hospitably
process; course; mechanism
trouble; difficulty; hospitality; treatment; treat
omitting (reluctantly); leaving out; dropping; giving up (reluctantly); parting with; sharing
existence; being; survival; to exist; to live; to survive
straying; wandering off course
lower reaches (of a river); bottom; lower part; lower half (of the body, esp. the privates); feces (faeces); end
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
to perceive; to sense; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment
hard; solid; stiff; tight; strong; firm (not viscous or easily moved); safe
(for) self-defense; (for) self-protection
reappearance; reemergence; return; reproduction; reenactment; recreation
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
entirely; completely; all; nothing but
stone; jewel; precious stone; flint (in a lighter); stone (in go); stone (in the bladder, kidney etc.); calculus
management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome