R: Wear Your Dictionary's: July 2021: Redbubble Inventory: [Moribund Institute]
Channel: English [Moribund Institute]
Date: 2021-07-16

Rigmarole - A long and complicated procedure that seems tiresome or pointless.


Resipiscence - (chiefly literary) Repentance; recognition of a past mistake, especially with a desire to improve in the future. 


Repudiate - (transitive) To reject the truth or validity of; to deny.



regulatory capture - The situation where a regulatory agency, created by government to act in the public interest, instead advances the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the affected industry or sector.


Ruination - The act of ruining or wrecking.


Rubicon - A limit that when exceeded, or an action that when taken, cannot be reversed.


Residual risk - the risk left over after safeguard (mitigation strategies) have been implemented


Ranidaphobia [ラニダフォビア] - The fear of frogs.



Rousseauian [ラウセオーイアン] - (philosophy) Of or relating to the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778).


Rogatory -(law) Seeking information or evidence, especially from a foreign court


Rat race [ラット・レース] - An activity or situation which is congested with participants and which is hectic or tedious, especially in the context of a busy, modern urban lifestyle.


Rhabdomancy [ラブドマンシー] - Divination with wands or rods, especially to use a divining rod to find things below the ground.



Refutation [レフュテーション] - An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.


Radiogram [レーディオーグラム] - A message, like a telegram, transmitted by radio rather than wires.


Rearguard - (soccer) The defence, collectively the defenders.


Rhabdomancer [ラブドマンサー] - One who carries out rhabdomancy; the user of a divining rod.


Rococo - was an exuberantly decorative 18th century European style which was the final expression of the baroque movement


The term Rogernomics [ローガノミクス], a portmanteau of "Roger" and "economics", was coined by journalists at the New Zealand Listener by analogy with Reaganomics to describe the neoliberal economic policies followed by Roger Douglas.


Resipiscence [レシピスセンス] - (chiefly literary) Repentance; recognition of a past mistake, especially with a desire to improve in the future. 


Rational ignorance is refraining from acquiring knowledge when the cost of educating oneself on an issue exceeds the potential benefit that the knowledge would provide.


Remuneration - a payment for work done; wages, salary, emolument.


Realpolitik [リールポリティック] - (politics) Pragmatic government policy concerned with perceived interests of the state.