raconteur (noun) – skilled storyteller

Examples:

The raconteur at the elementary school told a story to the students.

The raconteur educated the children with folktales about life in the old days.

Synonyms:Narrator, storyteller, griot, lecturer

Antonyms:

rebuttal (noun) – reply to a criticism

Examples:The kid had a rebuttal reply to the

teacher because she was upset that he was sleeping in class.

Tarron’s mother offered the lady a rebuttal when she made a comment.

Synonyms:Response, refute,

negation

Antonyms:Ignore, reticent

recluse (adj.) or (noun) – someone who

lives in seclusion

Examples:

The recluse man did not have many friends because he lived alone and was not very sociable. (adj.)

The recluse lived by himself and had no contact with his family. (noun)

Synonyms:Isolation, secluded, alone, solitude, solitary

Antonyms:Open, social, involved, active

reconcile (verb) – to settle a problem

Examples:

The child tried to reconcile the problems he had with his step mother.

When Corrine almost got into a fight Tara tried to reconcile the problem.

Synonyms:Solve, rectify, mitigate

Antonyms:Exacerbate, detrimental,

instigate, provoke

redundant (adj.) – characterized by

unnecessary repetition of words or ideas

Examples:The students understood the poem because it was very redundant.

The teacher was annoyed because the student was redundant when he asked about his grade 10 times.

The boy had a bad habit of being redundant.

Synonyms:Repetition, repeat, surplus, superfluous, unnecessary

Antonyms:Once, necessary, required,

needed, taciturn

reiteration (noun) – saying or doing something

repeatedly(verb) - reiterate

Examples:The student’s reiteration of the directions

upset him.

The people were annoyed because of the man’s constant reiteration of the events of 9-11.

Synonyms:Redundant, repeat, trite

Antonyms:

replete (adj.) – gorged with food, satiated

Examples:

The pelican’s mouth is usually replete.

Synonyms:Binge, satisfy, full, hoard

Antonyms:Empty, unfulfilled,

unsatisfied

renounce (verb) – to give up or to put aside

Examples:

Catholics renounce a particular habit during the lent season.

The president will renounce his position at the next election.

Synonyms:To give up

Antonyms:

repudiate (verb) – to cast off or disown; to

refuse to acknowledge; to deny

Examples:

I repudiated the fish because I wanted to spare their lives.

I will repudiate my mother because she did not let me go to the party.

Synonyms:Renounced, disown, ignore, deny

Antonyms:Accept, like, appreciate, to

own

residual(adj.) – describing the part that is

left over

Examples:The real estate sold the residual of

the property.

The residual car parts were scrapped.

Synonyms:Left over, scraps, remains, residue,

portion

Antonyms:whole, total