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racked and oppressed

racy and incisive


rage and apprehension


rank and learning


rant and gush


rapacity and villainy [rapacity = plundering]


rapidity and precision


rapt and silent


rapture and enthusiasm


rare and exquisite


rashness and heedlessness


ready and spontaneous


real and positive


realistic and effective


reasonable and practical


rebellion and disloyalty


rebuffs and anxieties


receptive and responsive


recognized and honored


recoil and reaction


reconciliation and peace


recondite and abstruse [recondite = concealed; hidden] [abstruse =
difficult to understand]


reconnoiter and explore


recreation and amusement


rectitude and delicacy


redeeming and transforming


refined and dignified


refreshing and invigorating


regard and esteem


regret and remorse


regular and symmetrical


rejection and scorn


reliable and trustworthy


relief and redress [redress = set right; remedy]


remarkable and interesting


remorseful and sullen


remote and distant


rend and devastate


repellent and ungracious

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Sophocles
(496 BC-406 BC)
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