| Sr No. | Word | hindi | Meaning | Example |
| 2930 | render | प्रस्तुत करना | deliver; provide; represent | He rendered aid to the needy and
indigent. |
| 2931 | rendezvous | मिलन स्थल | meeting place | The two fleets met at the
rendezvous at the appointed time.
|
| 2932 | rendition | प्रतिपादन | translation; artistic
interpretation of a song, etc. | The audience cheered
enthusiastically as she completed her rendition of the aria. |
| 2933 | renegade | पाखण्डी | deserter; traitor | Because he had abandoned his
post and joined forces with the Indians, his fellow officers considered the
hero of Dances with Wolves a renegade. |
| 2934 | renege | इनकार | deny; go back on | He reneged on paying off his
debt. |
| 2935 | renounce | छोड़ना | abandon; disown; repudiate | Even though she knew she would
be burned at the stake as a witch, Joan of Arc refused to renounce her belief
that her voices came from God. |
| 2936 | renovate | अच्छी अवस्था में लाना | restore to good condition; renew | They claim that they can
renovate worn shoes so that they look like new ones. |
| 2937 | renown | यश | fame | For many years an unheralded
researcher, Barbara McClintock gained international renown when she won the
Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. |
| 2938 | rent | किराया | tear or rip; split | The conflict over abortion
threatens to split our nation, creating a rent in the social fabric that will
be difficult to mend. |
| 2939 | reparable | मरम्मत योग्य | capable of being repaired | Fortunately, the damages we
suffered in the accident were reparable and our car looks brand new. |
| 2940 | reparation | मरम्मत | amends; compensation | At the peace conference, the
defeated country promised to pay reparations to the victors. |
| 2941 | repartee | हाजिर जवाबी | clever reply | He was famous for his witty
repartee and his sarcasm. |
| 2942 | repeal | निरसन | revoke; annul | What would the effect on our
society be if we decriminalized drug use by repealing the laws against the
possession and sale of narcotics? |
| 2943 | repellent | विकर्षक | driving away; unattractive | Mosquitoes find the odor so
repellent that they leave any spot where this liquid has been sprayed. |
| 2944 | repercussion | प्रतिघात | rebound; reverberation; reaction | I am afraid that this event will
have serious repercussions. |
| 2945 | repertoire | प्रदर्शनों की सूची | list of works of music, drama,
etc., a performer is prepared to present | The opera company decided to
include Madame Butterfly in its repertoire for the following season. |
| 2946 | repine | विलाप करना | fret; complain | There is no sense repining over
the work you have left undone. |
| 2947 | replenish | फिर से भरना | fill up again | Before she could take another
backpacking trip, Carla had to replenish her stock of freeze-dried foods. |
| 2948 | replete | भरा हुआ | filled to capacity; abundantly
supplied | The book is replete with
humorous situations. |
| 2949 | replica | प्रतिकृति | copy | Are you going to hang this
replica of the Declaration of Independence in the classroom or in the
auditorium? |
| 2950 | replicate | दोहराने | reproduce; duplicate | To the chagrin of the
scientists, they were unable to replicate the results of their controversial
experiment. |
| 2951 | repository | कोष | storehouse | Libraries are repositories of
the world's best thoughts. |
| 2952 | reprehensible | निन्दा | deserving blame | Your vicious conduct in this
situation is reprehensible. |
| 2953 | repress | रोकना | restrain; crush; oppress | Anne's parents tried to curb her
impetuosity without repressing her boundless high spirits. |
| 2954 | reprieve | दण्डविराम | temporary stay | During the twenty-four-hour
reprieve, the lawyers sought to make the stay of execution permanent. |
| 2955 | reprimand | डांटना | reprove severely | I am afraid that my parents will
reprimand me when I show them my report card. |
| 2956 | reprisal | प्रतिहिंसा | retaliation | I am confident that we are ready
for any reprisals the enemy may undertake. |
| 2957 | reprise | Reprise | recurrent action; musical
repetition; repeat performance | At Waterloo, it was not the
effect of any one skirmish that exhausted Colonel Audly; rather it was the
cumulative effect of the constant reprises that left him spent. |
| 2958 | reproach | तिरस्कार | blame; censure | I want my work to be above
reproach and without error |
| 2959 | reprobate | नीच | person hardened in sin, devoid
of a sense of decency | I cannot understand why he has
so many admirers if he is the reprobate you say he is. |
| 2960 | reprobation | नीचता | severe disapproval | The students showed their
reprobation of his act by refusing to talk with him. |
| 2961 | reprove | निंदा करना | censure; rebuke | The principal reproved the
students when they became unruly in the auditorium. |
| 2962 | repudiate | परित्याग करना | disown; disavow | He announced that he would
repudiate all debts incurred by his wife. |
| 2963 | repugnance | घृणा | loathing | She looked at the snake with
repugnance. |
| 2964 | repulsion | पराजय | act of driving back; distaste | The repulsion of the enemy
forces was not accomplished bloodlessly; many of the defenders were wounded
in driving the enemy back. |
| 2965 | reputable | सम्मानित | respectable | If you want to buy antiques,
look for a reputable dealer; far too many dealers today pass off fakes as
genuine antiques. |
| 2966 | reputed | प्रख्यात | supposed | He is the reputed father of the
child. |
| 2967 | requiem | फातहा | mass for the dead; dirge | They played Mozart's Requiem at
the funeral. |
| 2968 | requisite | अपेक्षित | necessary requirement | Many colleges state that a
student must offer three years of a language as a requisite for admission. |
| 2969 | requite | लौटाना | repay; revenge | The wretch requited his
benefactors by betraying them. |
| 2970 | rescind | रद्द कर देना | cancel | Because of public resentment,
the king had to rescind his order. |
| 2971 | reserve | रिज़र्व | self-control; formal but distant
manner | Although some girls were
attracted by Mark's reserve, Judy was put off by it, for she felt his
aloofness indicated a lack of openness. |
| 2972 | residue | छाछ | remainder; balance | In his will, he requested that
after payment of debts, taxes, and funeral expenses, the residue be given to
his wife. |
| 2973 | resignation | इस्तीफा | patient submissiveness;
statement that one is quitting a job | If Bob Cratchit had not accepted
Scrooge's bullying with timid resignation, he might have gotten up the nerve
to hand in his resignation. |
| 2974 | resilient | लचीला | elastic; having the power of
springing back | Highly resilient, steel makes
excellent bedsprings. |
| 2975 | resolution | संकल्प | determination | Nothing could shake his
resolution to succeed despite all difficulties. |
| 2976 | resolve | संकल्प | determination | Nothing could shake his resolve
that his children would get the best education that money could buy. |
| 2977 | resolve | संकल्प | decide; settle; solve | Homes resolved to travel to
Bohemia to resolve the dispute between Irene Adler and the King. |
| 2978 | resonant | गुंजयमान | echoing; resounding; deep and
full in sound | The deep, resonant voice of the
actor James Earl Jones makes him particulary effective when he appears on
stage. |
| 2979 | respiration | श्वसन | breathing; exhalation | The doctor found that the
patient's years of smoking had adversely affected both his lung capacity and
his rate of respiration. |
| 2980 | respite | मोहलत | delay in punishment; interval of
relief; rest | The judge granted the condemned
man a respite to enable his attorneys to file an appeal. |
| 2981 | resplendent | देदीप्यमान | brilliant; lustrous | The toreador wore a resplendent
costume called a suit of lights. |
| 2982 | responsiveness | जवाबदेही | state of reacting readily to
appeals, order, etc. | The audience cheered and
applauded, delighting the performers by its responsiveness. |
| 2983 | restitution | बहाली | reparation; indemnification | He offered to make restitution
for the window broken by his son. |
| 2984 | restive | अशांत | restlessly impatient;
obstinately resisting control | Waiting impatiently in the line
to see Santa Claus, even the best-behaved children grow restive and start to
fidget. |
| 2985 | restraint | संयम | controlling force | She dreamt of living an
independent life, free of all restraints. |
| 2986 | resumption | पुनरारंभ | taking up again; recommencement | During the summer break, Don had
not realized how much he missed university life: at the resumption of
classes, however, he felt marked excitement and pleasure. |
| 2987 | resurgent | पुनस्र्त्थानशील | rising again after defeat, etc. | The resurgent nation surprised
everyone by its quick recovery after total defeat. |
| 2988 | resuscitate | पुनर्जीवित | revive | The lifeguard tried to
resuscitate the drowned child by applying artificial respiration. |
| 2989 | retain | बनाए रखने के | keep; employ | Fighting to retain his seat in
Congress, Senator Foghorn retained a new manager to head his reelection
campaign. |
| 2990 | retaliate | प्रतिकार करना | repay in kind (usually for bad
treatment) | Fear that we will retaliate
immediately deters our foe from attacking us. |
| 2991 | retentive | धारणा शक्तिवाला | holding; having a good memory | The pupil did not need to spend
much time in study as he had a retentive mind. |
| 2992 | reticent | अल्पभाषी | reserved; uncommunicative;
inclined to silence | Hughes preferred reticent
employees to loquacious ones, noting that the formers' dislike of idle
chatter might ensure their discretion about his affairs. |
| 2993 | retinue | परिचारक वर्ग | following; attendants | The queen's retinue followed her
down the aisle. |
| 2994 | retiring | सेवानिवृत्त हो रहे हैं | modest; shy | Given Susan't retiring
personality, no one expected her to take up public speaking; surprisingly
enough, she became a star of the school debate team. |
| 2995 | retort | मुंहतोड़ जवाब | quick, sharp reply | Even when it was advisable for
her to keep her mouth shut, she was always ready with a retort. |
| 2996 | retraction | त्याग | withdrawal | He dropped his libel suit after
the newspaper published a retraction of its statement. |
| 2997 | retrench | छटनी करना | cut down; economize | If they were to be able to send
their children to college, they would have to retrench. |
| 2998 | retribution | प्रतिकार | vengeance; compensation;
punishment for offenses | The evangelist maintained that
an angry deity would exact retribution from the sinners. |
| 2999 | retrieve | पुनः प्राप्त | recover; find and bring in | The dog was intelligent and
quickly learned to retrieve the game killed by the hunter. |
| 3000 | retroactive | पूर्वव्यापी | taking effect before its
enactment (as a law) or imposition (as a tax) | Because the new pension law was
retroactive to the first of the year, even though Martha had retired in
February she was eligible for the pension. |
| 3001 | retrograde | पतित | go backwards; degenerate | Instead of advancing, our
civilization seems to have retrograded in ethics and culture. |
| 3002 | retrospective | पूर्वप्रभावी | looking back on the past | It is only when we become
retrospective that we can appreciate the tremendous advances made during this
century. |
| 3003 | revelry | मद्यपान का उत्सव | boisterous merrymaking | New Year's Eve is a night of
revelry. |
| 3004 | reverberate | गूंजना | echo; resound | The entire valley reverberated
with the sound of the church bells. |
| 3005 | reverent | श्रद्धालु | respectful | His reverent attitude was
appropriate in a house of worship. |
| 3006 | reverie | मन की लहर | daydream; musing | He was awakened from his reverie
by the teacher's question. |
| 3007 | revile | गाली देना | slander; vilify | He was avoided by all who feared
that he would revile and abuse them if they displeased him. |
| 3008 | revoke | वापस लेना | cancel; retract | Repeat offenders who continue to
drive under the influence of alcohol face having their driver's licenses
permanently revoked. |
| 3009 | revulsion | तबदीली | sudden violent change of
feeling; negative reaction | Many people in this country who
admired dictatorships underwent a revulsion when they realized what Hitler
and Mussolini were trying to do. |
| 3010 | rhapsodize | rhapsodize | to speak or write in an
exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner | She greatly enjoyed her Hawaiian
vacation and rhapsodized about it for weeks. |
| 3011 | rhetoric | वक्रपटुता | art of effective communication;
insincere or grandiloquent language | All writers, by necessity, must
be skilled in rhetoric. |
| 3012 | ribald | नीच | wanton; profane | He sang a ribald song that
offended many of the more prudish listeners. |
| 3013 | rider | सवार | amendment or clause added to a
legislative bill | Senator Foghorn said he would
support Senator Filibuster's tax reform bill only if Filibuster agreed to add
an antipollution rider to the bill. |
| 3014 | rife | व्याप्त | abundant; current | In the face of the many rumors
of scandal, which are rife at the moment, it is best to remain silent. |
| 3015 | rift | दरार | opening; break | The plane was lost in the stormy
sky until the pilot saw the city through a rift in the clouds. |
| 3016 | rig | सामान | fix or manipulate | The ward boss was able to rig
the election by bribing people to stuff the ballot boxes with ballots marked
in his candidate's favor. |
| 3017 | rigid | कठोर | stiff and unyielding; strict;
hard and unbending | By living with a man to whom she
was not married, George Eliot broke Victorian society's most rigid rule of
respectable behavior. |
| 3018 | rigor | कठोरता | severity | Many settlers could not stand
the rigors of the New England winters. |
| 3019 | rile | चिढ़ाना | vex; irritate; muddy | Red had a hair-trigger temper:
he was an easy man to rile. |
| 3020 | riveting | riveting | absorbing; engrossing | The reviewer described Byatt's
novel Possession as a riveting tale: absorbed in the story, he had finished
it in a single evening. |
| 3021 | rivulet | नाला | small stream | As the rains continued, the
trickle of water running down the hillside grew into a rivulet that
threatened to wash away a portion of the slope. |
| 3022 | robust | मजबूत | vigorous; strong | The candidate for the football
team had a robust physique. |
| 3023 | rococo | रोकोको | ornate; highly decorated | The rococo style in furniture
and architecture, marked by scrollwork and excessive decoration, flourished
during the middle of the eighteenth century. |
| 3024 | roil | क्रोधित करना | to make liquids murky by
stirring up sediment; to disturb | Be careful when you pour not to
roil the wine; if you stir up the sediment you'll destroy the flavor. |
| 3025 | roseate | गुलाबी | rosy; optimistic | I am afraid you will have to
alter your roseate views in the light of the distressing news that has just
arrived. |
| 3026 | roster | रोस्टर | list | They print the roster of players
in the season's program. |
| 3027 | rostrum | व्याख्यान चबूतरा | platform for speech-making;
pulpit | The crowd murmured angrily and
indicated that they did not care to listen to the speaker who was approaching
the rostrum. |
| 3028 | rote | दुहराव | repetition | He recited the passage by rote
and gave no indication he understood what he was saying. |
| 3029 | rotunda | रोटोंडा | circular building or hall
covered with a dome | His body lay in state in the
rotunda of the Capitol. |
| 3030 | rotundity | स्थूलता | roundness; sonorousness of
speech | Washington Irving emphasized the
rotundity of the governor by describing his height and circumference. |
| 3031 | rousing | गर्मजोशी | lively; stirring | And now, let's have a rousing
welcome for TV's own Roseanne Arnold, who'll lead us in a rousing rendition
of 'The Star-Spangled Banner.' |
| 3032 | rout | घोर पराजय | stampede; drive out | The reinforcements were able to
rout the enemy |
| 3033 | rubble | मलवा | fragments | Ten years after World War II,
some of the rubble left by enemy bombings could still be seen. |
| 3034 | rubric | ख़ाना | title or heading (in red print);
directions for religious ceremony; protocol | In ordaining the new priests,
the bishop carefully observed all the rubrics for the ordination service. |
| 3035 | ruddy | लाल | reddish; healthy-looking | His ruddy features indicated
that he had spent much time in the open. |
| 3036 | rudimentary | मौलिक | not developed; elementary | His dancing was limited to a few
rudimentary steps. |
| 3037 | rueful | उदास | regretful; sorrowful; dejected | The artist has captured the
sadness of childhood in his portrait of the boy with the rueful countenance. |
| 3038 | ruffian | बदमाश | bully; scoundrel | The ruffians threw stones at the
police. |
| 3039 | ruminate | चिंतन करना | chew the cud; ponder | We cannot afford to wait while
you ruminate upon these plans. |
| 3040 | rummage | चप्पा चप्पा छान मारना | ransack; thoroughly search | When we rummaged through the
trunks in the attic, we found many souvenirs of our childhood days. |
| 3041 | runic | रूण का | mysterious; set down in an
ancient alphabet | Tolkien's use of Old English
words and inscriptions in the runic alphabet give The Lord of the Rings its
atmosphere of antiquity. |
| 3042 | ruse | चाल | trick; stratagem | You will not be able to fool
your friends with such an obvious ruse. |
| 3043 | rustic | देहाती | pertaining to country people;
uncouth | The backwoodsman looked out
place in his rustic attire. |
| 3044 | rusticate | निस्सारित करना | banish to the country; dwell in
the country | I like city life so much that I
can never understand how people can rusticate in the suburbs. |
| 3045 | ruthless | क्रूर | pitiless | The escaped convict was a
dangerous and ruthless murderer. |
