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rise, n. ascent; spring, source, origin, beginning; increase, advance, appreciation, augmentation; elevation, hill, knoll.
rise again. resurge.
risible, a. funny, ludicrous. See laughable.
rising, a. ascending, ascendant.
rising, n. ascent, ascension, rise, levitation, levee, emergence; insurrection, uprising.
<>rising again. resurrection, resurgence.--a. resurgent.
risk, n. unsafety, danger, peril, jeopardy, hazard, imperilment.
risk, v. hazard, endanger, peril, imperil, jeopard, jeopardize.
risky, a. hazardous, unsafe, perilous, jeopardous, dangerous, precarious.
rite, n. ceremony, ordinance.
ritual, n. liturgy, consuetudinary.
rival, n. compet.i.tor, emulator, antagonist.--a. competing, compet.i.tive, emulative.
rival, v. compete, emulate.
rivalry, n. compet.i.tion, emulation, contention.
riven, a. cleft, split, rent asunder.
river, n. a.s.sociated Words: potamology, potamography, riparian, riparious, fluvial, levee, wady, estuary, fluviatic, fluviatile, bayou, pothole, dredge, fluvicoline, fluviograph, fluviometer, creva.s.se, anadron, tributary, embouchure, barrage.
rivulet, n. rill, creek, streamlet, runnel, runlet, brook, bourn.
road, n. thoroughfare, avenue, highroad, highway, street, lane, pa.s.sage, artery, roadstead, boulevard, esplanade, turnpike, tramroad, causeway, corduroy road, anchorage, _impa.s.se_.
road agent. highwayman, bandit.
roam, v. ramble, stray, rove, range, wander.
roar, n. bellow, bellowing.
roar, v. bellow; boom, peal, resound, thunder.
roast, v. bake; torrefy, parch; (Colloq.) banter.
rob, v. plunder, pillage, fleece, despoil, rifle, sack, spoliate, loot, forage.
robber, n. bandit, brigand, buccaneer, burglar, depredator, despoiler, footpad, filibuster, forager, desperado, corsair, freebooter, highwayman, picaroon, marauder, pillager, pirate, plunderer, raider, thief, ladrone.
robbery, n. larceny, burglary, theft, plundering, piracy, peculation, depredation, brigandage, buccaneering, despoliation, loot, sack.
robe, n. gown.
robing room of a church. vestry, sacristy.
robust, a. strong, sinewy, muscular, brawny, stalwart, vigorous, sound.
rock, n. bowlder; crag.
rocking-horse, n. c.o.c.khorse.
rod, n. wand, cane, stick; pole, perch, 16-1/2 feet.
roe, n. roebuck; ova, sp.a.w.n (of fishes).
rogue, n. knave, miscreant, scamp, rascal, sharper. See scoundrel.
roguery, n. cheating, knavery, fraud; mischievousness.
roguish, a. knavish, tricky; waggish, sportive, arch, mischievous.
roil, v. make turbid, rile.
roily, a. turbid, muddy, feculent.
roll, n. scroll; roster, record; convolution, trundle, coil.
roll, v. wheel, whirl, revolve, rotate, turn, gyrate, spin, trundle, circ.u.mgyrate; inwrap, infold, convolve; wallow, welter; rock, sway, lurch, t.i.tubate, fluctuate.
rolled, a. coiled, convoluted, involuted.
roller, n. cylinder; fillet.
rolling, a. rotating, circ.u.mrotary; undulating, hilly; voluble.
rolling, n. rotation, wheeling, circ.u.mrotation, t.i.tubation, involution.
romantic, a. imaginary, impractical, chimerical, picturesque, fanciful, fantastic.
roof timber. rafter.
room, n. s.p.a.ce, compa.s.s, range, scope, lat.i.tude; apartment, chamber, compartment. a.s.sociated Word: suite.
roomer, n. lodger.
roomy, a. s.p.a.cious, capacious, commodious.
roost, n. perch.
