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Requisite
  1. necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful"
  2. anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
Rarefied
  1. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"
  2. having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"
  3. weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)
  4. make more subtle or refined
  5. lessen the density or solidity of; "The bones are rarefied"
Rarified
  1. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"
  2. having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air"
  3. make more complex, intricate, or richer;
Regal
  1. belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head"
  2. Small portable organ
Refractory
  1. stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"
  2. temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli; "the refractory period of a muscle fiber"
  3. not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains"
  4. rebellious
  5. stubborn
  6. lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace
Recusant
  1. refusing to submit to authority; "the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate"- Mary W.Williams
  2. (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England
  3. Rebel
  4. someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
Relinquished
  1. that has been withdrawn or retreated from
  2. release, as from one's grip; "Let go of the door handle, please!"; "relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall"
  3. turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
  4. part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne"
  5. do without or cease to hold or adhere to; "We are dispensing with formalities"; "relinquish the old ideas"
Repugnant
  1. offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels"
Repellant
  1. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust;
  2. serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent"
  3. the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances"
  4. a chemical substance that repels animals
  5. a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water
Repelling
  1. highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust;
  2. reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal"
  3. force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"
  4. cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"
  5. be repellent to; cause aversion in
  6. fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me"