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Repossess
- verb - claim back
- regain possession of something
Represses
- verb - block the action of
- conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
- put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"
- put out of one's consciousness
Reprieves
- noun - a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort
- a warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence)
- an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
- postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution
- relieve temporarily
- the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
Reprisals
- noun - a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime
Reprocess
- verb - use again after processing; "We must recycle the cardboard boxes"
Reprovals
- noun - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to take the rebuke with a smile on his face"
Reprovers
- noun - someone who finds fault or imputes blame
Republics
- noun - a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president"
- a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Requitals
- noun - a justly deserved penalty
- an act of requiting; returning in kind
Rescripts
- noun - a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
- a reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or morality
- something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much better"
- the act of rewriting something