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Rebutters
- noun - (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder
- a debater who refutes or disproves by offering contrary evidence or argument
Rebutting
- verb - overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments"
- prove to be false or incorrect
Reductant
- noun - a substance capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance as it itself is oxidized; used in photography to lessen the density of a negative or print by oxidizing some of the loose silver
Reductase
- noun - an enzyme that catalyses the biochemical reduction of some specified substance
Reduction
- noun - any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent
- the act of decreasing or reducing something
- the act of reducing complexity
Reductios
- noun - (reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction
Reductive
- adjective - characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment; "their views of life were reductive and depreciatory" - R.H.Rovere
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.
Requitals
- noun - a justly deserved penalty
- an act of requiting; returning in kind