As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife"s voice urgently warning him, "Herman, I just heard on the news that there"s a car going the wrong way on 280. Please be careful!"
"Heck," said Herman, "It"s not just one car. It"s hundreds of them!"
- gram. (of a pronoun) expressing mutual relation (as in each other). —n. Math. Expression or function so related to another that their product is unity (1/2 is the reciprocal of 2). reciprocally adv. [latin reciprocus moving to and fro]
RECITATION
n. - reciting.
- thing recited.
RECITATIVE
n. Musical declamation in the narrative and dialogue parts of opera and oratorio. [italian recitativo: related to *recite]
RECLASSIFY
v. (-ies, -ied) classify again or differently. reclassification n.
RECOMMENCE
v. (-cing) begin again. recommencement n.
RECOMPENSE
—v. (-sing) 1 make amends to (a person) or for (a loss etc.).
- requite; reward or punish (a person or action). —n. - reward, requital.
- retribution. [latin: related to *compensate]
RECONSIDER
v. Consider again, esp. For a possible change of decision. reconsideration n.
RECREATION
ground n. Public land used for sports or games.
- n. - process or means of refreshing or entertaining oneself.
- pleasurable activity. recreational adj. [latin: related to *create]
RECRUDESCE
v. (-cing) formal (of a disease, problem, etc.) Break out again. recrudescence n. Recrudescent adj. [latin: related to *crude]
RECUPERATE
v. (-ting) 1 recover from illness, exhaustion, loss, etc.
- regain (health, a loss, etc.). recuperation n. Recuperative adj. [latin recupero]
