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resign expel eject
ANT: Drop, refuse, decline, resign, expel, eject, resist, repel, protest, resent, reject.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

rails exactly even
But the next moment the train leaped across the chasm, striking the rails exactly even, and dashing out the life of Burke the Slogger, sped away to Sloperton.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

reflection effaced everything
And Athos confessed to himself that, he was unprepared for so prompt a departure; but Raoul was so happy that this reflection effaced everything else from the consideration of his guardian.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

relieve extricate enlarge
ANT: Free, liberate, loose, relieve, extricate, enlarge, widen, expand, ease, unfetter.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

remember everything earthly
"That, Monsieur, I can never tell, because I do not know how long it will be before I shall cease to remember everything earthly."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

r em em
di em r em -em Abl.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

ruffianism evil eye
hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy; cruelty; cruelness &c. adj.; brutality, savagery; ferity[obs3], ferocity; barbarity, inhumanity, immanity|, truculence, ruffianism; evil eye, cloven foot; torture, vivisection.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

reformata et edita
a Senatu Populoque Rom. reformata et edita.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

regime economy economics
tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity; generalship, statesmanship, seamanship; strategy, strategics[obs3]; plan &c. 626. management; husbandry; housekeeping, housewifery; stewardship; menage; regime; economy, economics; political economy; government &c. (direction) 693. execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record. course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding; role; process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating; method &c., path &c. 627.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

retarding every effort
We shall constitute one-third and more of the ignorance and crime of the South, or one-third its intelligence and progress; we shall contribute one-third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Refines exalts ennobles
Friends of the stage, who hail it as the shrine Where music, painting, poetry entwine Their kindred garlands, whence their blended power Refines, exalts, ennobles hour by hour
— from Fanny, with Other Poems by Fitz-Greene Halleck

recent events especially
At the same time it would not be fair to disguise from our friends in Germany that certain recent events, especially the action taken against the Jews, have caused and continue to cause us anxiety and distress; and we feel that we ought to share our concern with you here…"
— from The Grey Book A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule by Johan M. Snoek

réconcilier ensemble et
Allez vous réconcilier ensemble, et j'écouterai ensuite tout ce que vous viendrez me dire de lui.»
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

round emblem encircled
[503] 278-6011 Flag description: three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), white, and blue with the national coat of arms centered in the white band; the coat of arms features a round emblem encircled by the words REPUBLICA DE EL SALVADOR EN LA AMERICA CENTRAL; similar to the flag of Nicaragua, which has a different coat of arms centered in the white band - it features a triangle encircled by the words REPUBLICA DE NICARAGUA on top and AMERICA CENTRAL on the bottom; also similar to the flag of Honduras, which has five blue stars arranged in an X pattern centered in the white band Economy El Salvador Economy - overview: In recent years, this Central American economy has been suffering from a weak tax collection system, factory closings, the aftermaths of Hurricane Mitch of 1998 and the devastating earthquakes of early 2001, and weak world coffee prices.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

recall every expression
She was not certain; she turned the letter over and over in her mind, and could not recall every expression, and she could not sleep till she was satisfied.
— from In the Roar of the Sea by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Republican enthusiasts ever
The scene where this happens—and where the "sea-green incorruptible" himself, Saint-Just (prototype of so many Republican enthusiasts, ever since and to-day), Marie-Joseph, and the Black Doctor figure—is singularly good.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

Romer estates Edward
“When your father inherited the Romer estates, Edward, he was, as you are, an only child, and, like you, had been left early an orphan.
— from The Empire Makers: A Romance of Adventure and War in South Africa by Hume Nesbit


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