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ranting, a. bombastic.
rap, v. knock.--n. knock, thump, thwack.
rapacious, a. predatory, predaceous, ravenous; avaricious, grasping, extortionate, voracious.
rapacity, n. voracity, rapaciousness, greediness, avarice.
rape, n. constupration, defloration, ravishment, violation.
rape, v. ravish, constuprate, violate, deflower.
rapid, a. swift, fast, fleet, expeditious, cursory, quick, speedy, hasty, furious.
rapidity, n. swiftness, celerity, velocity, haste, speed, fleetness.
rapidly, adv. swiftly, fast, post haste.
rapine, n. plundering, sack, pillage, spoliation, depredation.
rapscallion, n. (Colloq.) rascal, rogue, scoundrel, knave, miscreant.
rapt, a. enraptured, fascinated, transported, spellbound; absorbed, engrossed.
rapture, n. ecstasy, transport, delight, bliss, beat.i.tude.
rapturous, a. ecstatic, beatific, delightful, ravis.h.i.+ng, transporting.
rare, a. uncommon, unusual, strange, infrequent, singular, curious; exquisite, fine, incomparable, _recherche_; spa.r.s.e, dispersed; subtile, fine, thin, rarefied, tenuous; underdone.
rare bird. _rara avis_.
rarebit, n. delicacy, tidbit, dainty.
rarely, adv. infrequently, seldom.
rascal, n. rogue, scoundrel, caitiff, scamp, knave, villain, miscreant, varlet, trickster, renegade, scapegrace, rapscallion.
rascality, n. chicanery, improbity. See badness.
rash, a. incautious, precipitate, overhasty, indiscreet, inconsiderate, impulsive, temerarious, madcap, headlong, foolhardy, unwary, reckless.
rash, n. exanthema, eruption, efflorescence.
rashness, n. temerity, precipitancy, indiscretion, incaution, recklessness.
rasp, v. grate, file; offend.
rasping, a. grating.--n. pl. scobs.
rate, v. estimate, value, appraise; a.s.sess; scold, censure, chide, berate, reprove.
ratification, n. confirmation, sanction, substantiation, corroboration.
ratify, v. confirm, sanction, substantiate, corroborate.
ration, n. allowance, portion, allotment.
rational, a. reasoning; intelligent, sane, sound, judicious, wise, reasonable, equitable. Antonyms: irrational, insane, injudicious, unwise, unreasonable.
rationale, n. explanation, exposition, reason.
rattle, v. clatter; chatter, prate, babble, prattle; disconcert, confuse, discompose.
rattle, n. clatter; chatter, babble, prattle; crepitaculum; rale.
rattle-headed, a. giddy, rattle-brained, thoughtless.
ravage, v. plunder, pillage, devastate, sack, desolate, despoil.
ravage, n. plunder, pillage, devastation, spoliation, sack, despoliation, rapine.
rave, v. rage, rant, storm.
ravel, v. unravel.
ravening, a. rapacious, insatiable, predatory, ferocious.
ravenous, a. voracious, rapacious, ravening, insatiable.
ravine, n. gorge, defile, clough, lin, gully, gulch.
raving, a. irrational, delirious, maniacal, wild, phrenetic.
ravish, v. transport, enrapture, enchant; rape.
ravis.h.i.+ng, a. rapturous, ecstatic, transporting, beatific, delightful.
ravishment, n. ecstasy, transport, rapture; rape.
raw, a. uncooked; unprepared, crude; immature, unripe; galled, sore, sensitive; inexperienced, unskilled, green.
rawboned, a. gaunt, skinny.
raw meat. a.s.sociated Word: omophagic.
raw sugar. ca.s.sonade.
ray, n. beam, gleam.
