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Race: 1. People who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock

Rationalization: 1. The cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason 2. A defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening

Reaction: 1. A response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude 2. A bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agent 3. An idea evoked by some experience 4. Doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like 5. Extreme conservatism in political or social matters

Readiness: 1. The state of being ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) 2. Prompt willingness 3. (psychology) a temporary readiness to respond in a particular way 4. natural effortlessness

Ready: 1. Poised for action 2. Make ready or suitable in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc 3. Completely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress

Reality: 1. All of your experiences that determine how things appear to you 2. The state of being actual or real 3. The state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be 4. The quality possessed by something that is real

Realm: 1. A domain in which something is dominant 2. A knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about

reasoning or conduct 2. A rule or standard especially of good behavior 3. Rule of personal conduct

Rebellion: 1. Refusal to accept some authority or code or convention 2. Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

Recaptured: 1. Experience anew 2. Capture anew 3. Take back by force, as after a battle 4. Capture again, as of an escaped prisoner

Receive: 1. Get something; come into possession of 2. Of perceptual input: receive a signal, receive news, receive a verdict, etc. 3. Of mental or bodily states or experiences 4. Accept as true or valid 5. Experience as a reaction

Receptive: 1. Open to arguments, ideas, or change 2. Ready or willing to receive favorably 3. Of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system

Reciprocal: 1. Concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return; "reciprocal aid"

Reckless: 1. Marked by unthinking boldness; with defiant disregard for danger or consequences 2. Characterized by careless unconcerned

Recognition: 1. The state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged 2. The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering 3. Approval 4. Coming to understand something by thinking about it 5. The act of preferring

Recognize: 1. Discern 2. Be fully aware or cognizant of 3. Detect with the senses 4. Perceive to be the same

Recommendation: 1. Something (as a course of action) that is recommended 2. Something that recommends (or expresses commendation)

Recovery: 1. Return to an original state 2. Gradual healing after sickness or injury 3. The act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) 4. An active change in our ideas and attitudes (Basic Text Pg.53 & Just For Today Pg.297) 5. A process that brings about change in our lives. (Just For Today Pg.185) 6. Mean more than cleaning up- it means powering up. (Just For Today Pg.256) 7. Is a gift that we’ve received from a power greater than ourselves. (Just For Today Pg.257) 8. Is also a gift, and we have to care for it if we want to keep it. (Just For Today Pg.276) 9. Recovery is more than just a fad-it’s a way of life. (Just For Today Pg.290) 10. Requires more than hard work; it requires a liberal dose of courage. (Just For Today Pg.316) 11. Is a process of growth and change in which our lives are renewed. (Just For Today Pg.317) 12. Is the foundation of our lives, making everything else possible. . (Just For Today Pg.352)

Reduction: 1. The act of decreasing or reducing something 2. Any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent 3. The act of reducing complexity

Reflect: 1. Bring back 2. Think about at length and in depth 3. To throw or bend back from a surface 4. Be bright by reflecting or casting light

Regret: 1. Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment 2. Feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about 3. Feel sad about the loss or absence of

Regularly: 1. In a regular manner 2. In a regular way without variation

Regulate: 1. Fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of 2. Impose regulations on 3. Shape or influence; give direction to 4. Check the emission of (sound)

Regulated: 1. Controlled or governed according to rule or principle or law 2. Marked by system or regularity or discipline

Reinforcing: 1. Make stronger 2. Strengthen and support with rewards

Rejected: 1. Refuse to accept or acknowledge 2. Refuse to approve 3. Cast off as valueless 4. Rebuffed (by a lover) without warning 5. Judged unacceptable

Relapse: 1. A failure to maintain a higher state 2. Deteriorate in health 3. Go back to bad behaviors 4. Is returning to using drugs after a period of abstinence. (Behind The Walls Pg.10)

Relate: 1. Make a logical or causal connection 2. Be about; have to do with; be relevant to; refer, pertain, or relate to 3. Give an account of 4. Be in a relationship with 5. Have a relationship to 6. Bring into relation with

Related: 1. Being connected or associated 2. Connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage 3. Similar or related in quality or character 4. Having close kinship and appropriateness

Relationship: 1. A state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection) 2. A state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries

Relied: 1. Have confidence or faith in

Relieving: 1. Free someone temporarily form his or her obligations 2. Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to 3. Lessen the intensity of; calm; as of of anxieties and fears 4. Save from ruin or destruction 5. Provide relief for 6. Grant exemption or release to

Religion: 1. A belief bringing the spiritual nature of a man to a supernatural being, as involving a feeling of dependence and responsibility, together with the feelings and practices which naturally flow from such a belief

Reluctant: 1. Unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom 2. Unwilling to become involved 3. Not eager

Rely: 1. Have confidence or faith in

Remain: 1. Stay the same; remain in a certain state 2. Continue in a place, position, or situation 3. Be left; of persons, questions, problems, results, evidence, etc. "There remains the question of who pulled the trigger" 4. Stay behind

Remorse: 1. A feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed)

Remove: 1. Degree of figurative distance or separation 2. Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc.; or remove something abstract 3. Dispose of 4. Cause to leave 5. Go away or leave 6. Kill intentionally and with premeditation

Renew: 1. Re-establish on a new, usually improved, basis 2. Make new or like new

Reparation: 1. The act of putting something in working order again 2. Compensation (given or received) for an injury or insult

Representative: 1. A person who represents others 2. An advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose 3. A member of the US House of Representatives 4. A single item of information that is representative of a type

Reprieve: 1. A (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort 2. An interruption in the intensity or amount of something 3. A warrant granting postponement (usually to postpone the execution of the death sentence) 4. Postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution 5. Relieve temporarily

Reputation: 1. The state of being held in high esteem and honor 2. Notoriety for some particular characteristic 3. The general estimation that the public has for a person

Required: 1. Require as useful, just, or proper 2. Consider obligatory; request and expect 3. Make someone do something 4. Have need of 5. Necessary for relief or supply

Resentment: 1. A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will 2. Reliving past experiences again and again (Basic Text Pg.94)

Reservations: 1. An unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly 2. The act of keeping back or setting aside for some future occasion 3. Parts of ourselves we won’t surrender to the program.(It Works How & Why Pg.10.) 4. Are places in our program that we have reserved for relapse. (Step Working Guides Pg.5) 5. Something we set aside for future use. (Just For Today Pg.51)

Reserve: 1. Formality and propriety of manner 2. Something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose 3. An athlete who plays only when another member of the team drops out 4. A district that is reserved for particular purpose 5. Armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency 6. The trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary 7. Hold back or set aside, esp. for future use or contingency: reserve: they held back their applause in anticipation. 8. Give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause 9. Hold on to 10. Obtain or arrange in advance 11. Arrange for and reserve in advance 12. Not engaged in military action 13. Kept in reserve especially for emergency use

Resignation: 1. Acceptance of despair 2. The act of resigning 3. A formal document giving notice of your intention to resign 4. Is what we feel when we’ve realized we’re addicts but haven’t accepted recovery as the solution to our problem.(Step Working Guides Pg.6)

Resolution: 1. A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote 2. The ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together 3. The trait of being resolute; firmness of purpose 4. Finding a solution to a problem 5. Something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making 6. Analysis into clear-cut components 7. A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem 8. Implies that to find an answer to the problem, we must lay to rest what was previously plaguing or disturbing us in some way.(Step Working Guides Pg.83)

Resolve: 1. The trait of being resolute; firmness of purpose 2. A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote 3. Bring to an end; settle conclusively 4. Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation 5. Reach a decision 6. Understand the meaning of 7. Make clearly visible, as of images in optics 8. Find the solution to

Resource: 1. Available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed 2. A source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed 3. The ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

Respect: 1 . The condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded) 2. An attitude of admiration or esteem 3. An courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard 4. Behavior intended to please your parents 5. A feeling of friendship and esteem 6. Courteous regard for people's feelings 7. Regard highly; think much of 8. Show respect towards

Responsible: 1. Worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable 2. Being the agent or cause 3. Having an acceptable credit rating

Restitution: 1. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury 2. The act of restoring something to its original state 3. Getting something back again 4.Very similar to restoration, but in relating it to the ninth step, we can think of it as the act of returning something-material or more abstract-to its rightful owner.

Restoration: 1. The act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state 2. Getting something back again 3. Changing to a point were addiction and it’s accompanying insanity is no longer controlling our lives (It Works How & Why Pg.19 & Step Working Guides Pg.15) 4. To bring back to its former state something that had been damaged. (Step Working Guides Pg.83)

Restraint: 1. The act of restraining 2. Discipline in personal and social activities 3. The state of being constrained 4. Lack of ornamentation 5. A device that holds someone or something back from action

Results: 1. Issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end 2. A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon 3. A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem 4. The situation that exists when something ends

Reveal: 1. Make clear and visible 2. Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

Revert: 1. Go back to a previous state

Ridicule: 1. Exposing someone to laughter 2. Subject to laughter

Righteousness: 1. Adhering to moral principles

Rigorous: 1. Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard 2. Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures 3. (of circumstances; especially weather) causing suffering

Risk: 1. A source of danger 2. A venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury 3. Expose to a chance of loss or damage 4. Take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

Role: 1. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group 2. An actor's portrayal of someone in a play 3. What something is used for 4. Normal or customary activity

Root: 1. The place where something begins, where it springs into being