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remnant.noun
what is left over; a small remaining part; remainder
regard.noun
careful consideration;
attention; concern (she gives little regard to her appearance); respect
and affection; esteem (high regard for his teacher); regard implies
evaluation of worth rather than recognition of it; to look at attentively;
observe closely; to look upon or consider in a particular
way; to hold in esteem or respect (she regards her teachers highly); to
relate or refer to; concern (this item regards their liability); to take
into account; consider; good wishes expressing such sentiment (give the
family my best regards); a particular point or aspect; respect (she was
lucky in that regard); concerning; in regard to or with regard to; with
respect to
intransitive
verb senses.to look or gaze; to give
heed; pay attention
regard, regarded,
regarding,
regards.transitive
verbs
to take into account (I regard this birthday card
as an example of her affection); consider; to care for; have reference
to
regardless,
regardlessly.adverbs
in
spite of everything; anyway: continues to work regardless
regardless.adjective
heedless;
unmindful
regardlessness.noun
irregardless.adverb
means regardless;
it is a form that many people mistakenly believe to be a correct usage
in formal style but that in fact has no legitimate antecedents
in either standard or nonstandard varieties; the word was likely coined
from a blend of irrespective and regardless; perhaps this is why critics
have sometimes insisted that there is 'no such word' as irregardless (but
ah these critics), a charge they would not think of leveling at a bona
fide nonstandard word such as ain't, which has an ancient genealogy
remedial.adjective
providing or intending to provide a remedy
remediation.noun
remedy.noun
a means of counteracting something undesirable
racist
a program and practice of racial segregation (separation
of races; communist principle democracies use - divide & conquer),
persecution
and
domination
recant,
recanted,
recanting,
recants.verbs
to make a formal or public withdrawal or renunciation
of beliefs, statements, etc. formerly held
transitive
verb use.to make a formal retraction
or
disavowal of (a statement or
belief to which one has previously committed oneself)
intransitive verb use.to
make a formal retraction or disavowal of a previously held statement or
belief
recanter, recantation.noun
reprehension.noun
reprehensible.adjective
deserving rebuke
or censure; blameworthy; culpable
reprehensibility,
reprehensibleness.nouns
reprehensibly.adverb
recombinant.adjective
relating to or exhibiting genetic recombination
(recombinant
progeny); relating
to or containing
recombinant DNA; produced
by recombinant DNA technology
recombinant.noun
recombinant DNA (reinsertion
of concocted
gene combinations)-noun
called this because the genes are made of DNA;
genetically engineered DNA prepared in vitro (latin for 'living') by cutting
up DNA molecules
and splicing together specific DNA fragments usually from more than one
species
of organism; recombinant DNA is
a way of joining genes in the test tube and reinserting them into an organism,
the method being used to create organisms with combinations of characteristics
that could not arise by natural means, resulting from novel (new) gene
combinations, the old, classical rules, which restricted mating and genetic
exchange to members of a species, no longer being necessary to apply-
retrovirus.noun
any of a family (Retroviridae) of RNA-viruses-(as
HIV
was once thought to be) that produce reverse
transcriptase by means of which DNA is produced using their RNA as
a pattern maker and incorporated into the
genome
of infected cells and that includes numerous tumorigenic viruses; the name
"retroviruses" arises because of the copying of the RNA which forms the
viral "genes" (the genome) "backwards" into DNA – a direction contrary
to that long considered universal, that is, from DNA into RNA
retroviral.adjective
reiterate.transitive
verb
inflected form(s)-reiterated;
reiterating
to state or do over again
reiteration.noun
reiterative.adjective
reiteratively.adverb
repressive.adjective
causing or inclined
to cause repression (a repressive dictatorship) repressively.adverb
repressiveness.noun
repress,
repressed, repressing,
represses.verbs
transitive use.to
cause to hold back; put down; suppress;
quell;
stifle
intransitive use.to
take repressive action
Psychology.-.to
exclude (painful or unpleasant memories, for example) from the conscious
mind
represser.noun
repressive, repressible.adjectives
repression.noun
the act of repressing or the state of being repressed
Psychology.-.the
unconscious exclusion of painful impulses, desires, or fears from the conscious
mind
repressionist.adjective
repressively.adverb
repressibility.noun
restrain.transitive
verb
to hold back; constrict;
to
repress; to keep under control; to confine
restrainable.adjective
restarinedly.adverb
restrainer, restrainment,
restraint.nouns
reverse transcriptase.noun
is an enzyme carried by an
RNA-virus,
but is unlike others of the same type (RNA viruses) in that this RNA genome
makes it possible to replicate in a host (inhabits your body) as the other
nucleic
acid, DNA. It is therefore called a retrovirus
right angle.noun
an angle whose sides are perpendicular
to each other; an angle of 90º,
examples _| or —|
or |_
,
etc.
raft.noun
a great number, amount, or collection
relative.adjective
having pertinence
or relevance;
connected or related; considered in comparison with something else (the
relative quiet of the suburbs); dependent on or interconnected with something
else
relative.noun
one related by kinship, common origin, or marriage;
something having a relation or connection to something else
relativeness.noun
Grammar.-.relative
pronoun
relatively.adverb
in comparison with something else; in a relative
manner
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