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Proclive
- - Having a tendency by nature; prone; proclivous.
Punitive
- adjective - inflicting punishment; "punitive justice"; "punitive damages"
Putative
- adjective - purported; commonly put forth or accepted as true on inconclusive grounds; "the foundling's putative father"; "the putative author of the book"
Qui Vive
- noun - condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action; "bombers were put on alert during the crisis"
Reactive
- adjective - participating readily in reactions; "sodium is a reactive metal"; "free radicals are very reactive"
- reacting to a stimulus; "the skin of old persons is less reactive than that of younger persons"
Relative
- adjective - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
- an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
- estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"
- properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'; "the punishment ought to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production"
Reprieve
- 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
Retrieve
- verb - Get back
- get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
- go for and bring back; "retrieve the car from the parking garage"
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection;
- run after, pick up, and bring to the master; "train the dog to retrieve"
- takes back
Ringdove
- noun - Eurasian pigeon with white patches on wings and neck
- greyish Old World turtledove with a black band around the neck; often caged