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Redundant
  1. repetition of same sense in different words; "`a true fact' and `a free gift' are pleonastic expressions"; "the phrase `a beginner who has just started' is tautological"; "at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition"- J.B.Conant
  2. more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"
Reformist
  1. favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
  2. a disputant who advocates reform
Reform-Minded
  1. favoring or promoting reform (often by government action)
Reconciled
  1. made compatible or consistent
  2. bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities"
  3. make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories"
  4. accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"
  5. come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up"
Reconstructive
  1. helping to restore to good condition; "reconstructive surgery"; "rehabilitative exercises"
Rehabilitative
  1. helping to restore to good condition; "reconstructive surgery"; "rehabilitative exercises"
  2. designed to accomplish rehabilitation; "from a penal to a rehabilitative philosophy"- J.B.Costello; "rehabilitative treatment"
Ruinous
  1. causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war"
  2. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"
Ravaging
  1. ruinously destructive and wasting; "a ravaging illness"
  2. plundering with excessive damage and destruction
  3. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
  4. make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
Rebellious
  1. discontented as toward authority
  2. participating in organized resistance to a constituted government; "the rebelling confederacy"
  3. resisting control or authority; "temperamentally rebellious"; "a rebellious crew"
  4. Truculent
Restless
  1. worried and uneasy
  2. ceaselessly in motion; "the restless sea"; "the restless wind"
  3. lacking or not affording physical or mental rest; "a restless night"; "she fell into an uneasy sleep"