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Reluctant
- adjective - disinclined to become involved; "they were usually reluctant to socialize"; "reluctant to help"
- not eager; "foreigners stubbornly reluctant to accept our ways"; "fresh from college and reluctant for the moment to marry him"
- unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; "a reluctant smile"; "loath to admit a mistake"
Reluctate
- - To struggle against anything; to resist; to oppose.
Remittals
- noun - a payment of money sent to a person in another place
- an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission"
- In English law, transfer of a case from one court to another jurisdiction, esp. from an appeal court to an inferior court.
- the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance
Remittent
- adjective - (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity; "a remittent fever"
Remitting
- verb - diminish or abate; "The pain finally remitted"
- forgive; "God will remit their sins"
- hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam"
- make slack as by lessening tension or firmness
- refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
- release from (claims, debts, or taxes); "The taxes were remitted"
- send (money) in payment; "remit $25"
Remontant
- - Rising again; -- applied to a class of roses which bloom more than once in a season; the hybrid perpetual roses, of which the Jacqueminot is a well-known example.
Rendition
- noun - a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.; "they heard a live rendition of three pieces by Schubert"
- an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he annoyed us with his interpreting of parables"; "often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child's intended meaning"
- handing over prisoners to countries where torture is allowed
- the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance; "her rendition of Milton's verse was extraordinarily moving"
Repartees
- noun - adroitness and cleverness in reply
- noun - conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies