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RESPONSIBLE, _a._ answerable; accountable
RESTRAINT, _s._ abridgment of liberty; prohibition; restriction
RETALIATION, _s._ requital; return of like for like
RETA'RD, _v.a._ hinder; delay
RE'TINUE, _s._ a number attending upon a princ.i.p.al person; train
RETROSPECTION, _s._ act or faculty of looking backward
RETU'RN, _s._ the act of coming back to the same place; act of restoring or giving back
REVELA'TION, _s._ discovery; communication; apocalypse; the prophecy of St. John, revealing future things
REVE'NUE, _s._ income; annual profits received from lands or other funds
RE'VERENCE, _s._ veneration; respect; t.i.tle of the clergy
REVE'RSE, _v.a._ turn upside down; overturn
RHINO'CERUS, _s._ a large animal with a horn on its nose
RHODODE'NDRON, _s._ the rose-bay
RI'BALDRY, _s._ mean, lewd, brutal language
RI'DICULE, _s._ contemptive mockery
RI'VET, _v.a._ fasten strongly
RI'VULET, _s_ a small river; streamlet; brook
ROMA'NTIC, _a._ wild; fanciful
ROO'KERY, _s._ a nursery of rooks
ROYA'LIST, _s._ adherent to a King
RU'BY, _s._ a precious stone of a red colour
RU'DIMEMT, _s._ the first principle
RU'GGED, _a._ rough; uneven; rude
RU'STIC, _a._ rough; rude; pertaining to the country
RUSTI'CITY, _s._ rural appearance; simplicity
SA'CRAMENT, _s._ an oath; an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace
SA'CRED, _a._ immediately relating to G.o.d; holy
SA'CRIFICE, _v.a._ offer to heaven; destroy or give up for the sake of something else; destroy; kill
SAGA'CITY, _a._ quickness of scent; acuteness of discovery
SA'LINE, _a._ consisting of salt; const.i.tuting bait
SA'NCt.i.tY, _s._ holiness; goodness; purity
SA'NGUINARY, _a._ cruel; b.l.o.o.d.y; murderous
SA'PPHIRE, _s._ a precious stone, of a blue colour
SAU'RIAN, _s._ a reptile belonging to the order of Sauris or lizards
SAVA'NNAH, _s._ an open meadow without wood
SCABBARD, _s._ the sheath of a sword or dagger
SCE'NERY, _s._ the appearances of places or things; the background of the scenes of a play
SCE'PTRE, _s._ the ensign of royalty borne in the hand
SCI'ENCE, _s._ knowledge; certainty grounded, on demonstration
SCIENTIFIC, _a._ producing demonstrative knowledge
SCREECH, _s._ cry of horror and anguish; harsh cry
SCRI'PTURE, _s._ sacred writing; the Bible
SCU'RRY, _a._ mean; vile; dirty; worthless
SCU'LPTURE, _s._ carved work
SE'AMAN, _s._ a sailor
SE'ASON, _s._ one of the four parts of the year; a fit time
SE'CRET, _s._ something studiously hidden; privacy; solitude; a thing unknown
SECRE'TE, _v.a._ put aside; hide
SECU'RITY, _s._ protection; safety; certainty
