ble, shake, shudder, quake.
quivering, a. trimbling, tremulous, shuddering, shaking.
quixotic, a. Utopian, impracticable, chimerical fanciful.
quiz, v. puzzle, banter, chaff; question.
quiz, n. puzzle, conundrum, poser; examination.
quod, n. (Slang) quadrangle, court.
quoit, n. discus.
quondam, a. former, sometime, old-time.
quota, n. portion, share, allotment, apportionment.
quotation, n. citation, excerpt.
quotation marks. guillemets.
quote, v. cite, repeat, paraphrase, excerpt.
R
rabbit, n. hare, coney, bunny, cottontail.
rabbitry, n. warren.
rabble, n. mob, rabblerout, populace.
rabid, a. violent, raging, furious; intolerant, fanatical,
uncompromising, rampant.
rabies, n. hydrophobia. Associated Words: rabid, rabietic,
hydrophobic, antihydrophobic.
race, n. Associated Words: ethnology, ethnography, ethnologist,
ethnic, racial, ethnogeny, holethnos, holethnic, interracial.
race-course, n. race-track, ring, circus, career, hippodrome,
curriculum, stadium.
racer, n. courser.
rack, n. pain, torture, agony; amble, pacing; crib, manger; distaff;
arrack.
rack, v. stretch, strain, torture, agonize; harass, persecute,
torment.
rack and ruin. (Colloq.) destruction, ruin.
racket, n. din, uproar, clamor, babel, clangor, blare, noise,
hullabaloo, hilarity, vociferation; (Slang) carouse, revel, dissipation.
racy, a. fine-flavored, pungent, rich; spirited, piquant, fresh and
lively. Antonyms: insipid, vapid, tasteless, flavorless, dull, prosaic.
radiance, n. effulgence, refulgence, brilliancy, brightness.
radiant, a. effulgent, refulgent, brilliant. See bright.
radiate, v. shine, beam, gleam; diverge.
radiated, a. divergent.
radiation, n. irradiance, irradiation; divergence. Antonym:
convergence.
radical, a. original, fundamental; extreme, thorough-going;
primitive. Antonyms: conservative, moderate, slight, trifling,
derivative.
radical, n. root, etymon, radix.
radically, adv. fundamentally.
raff, n. heap, jumble.
raffle, n. lottery.
raft, n. float, catamaran; (Slang) lot, multitude, collection,
heap.
rag, n. tatter, flitter, shred, patch, frazzle, fragment.
ragamuffin, n. tatterdemalion, scarecrow.
rag-baby, n. mopsey, moppet.
rage, n. fury, wrath, passion; (Colloq.) vogue, mode, fashion. See
anger.
rage, v. storm, fume, rave.
ragged, a. rent, torn, frazzled; rough, jagged; ragamuffin,
tatterdemalion.
raging, a. fur
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