reluctance, n. unwillingness, disinclination, aversion; hesitancy, shrinking, holding back, cautiousness, wariness, carefulness; distaste, disrelish, dislike, prejudice against; obstinacy, recalcitrance, renitency.
reluctant, adj. 1. unwilling, disinclined, indisposed, demurring, loath, averse; hesitant, hanging back, faltering, laggard; cautious, chary, careful, circumspect, wary, leery.
2. opposed, dissenting, oppugnant, antagonistic, antipathetic; contrary, rebellious, resistant, struggling against, recalcitrant, renitent.
rely, v. depend, count, bet one's bottom dollar, bank, lean; trust, put faith in, swear by; put one's life in [s.o.'s] hands; be sure of, be certain of.
remain, v. 1. continue, abide, endure, last, per-dure, hold up; succeed, prevail; draw out, drag on, be protracted; Inf. stay put, Inf. stand pat, be immobile, be dormant, not stir, not move, vegetate.
2. stay, wait, rest, tarry, linger, dwell, reside, sojourn, lodge, inhabit; stay at home, keep indoors, be housed; be established at, get a footing, settle down, make one's abode, domesticate, take up one's quarters.
3. survive, endure, outlive, persevere, outlast, remain alive, keep a hold on life.
-n. 4. Usu.
remains a. remnants, leavings, leftovers, residue, balance, rest, remainder; oddments, rummage, odds and ends, fragments, truck, waste, garbage, junk, Inf. crap; rejectamenta, discards, throwaways. See - remainder (defs. 1-6). b. traces, vestiges, semblances,
c. cadaver, carcass, dead body, SI. stiff.
remainder, n. 1. remnant, residue, residuum, remains, balance, rest; surplus, excess, superfluity, extra, surplusage, redundance, Commerce, overage.
2. oddments, rummage, stuff, odds and ends, flotsam, jetsam, pickings; fragment, scrap, shard, truck, junk, Inf. crap; rejectamenta, castoffs, throwaways, discards, tares; (all usu. of food) leftovers, leavings, orts.
3. waste, wastage, refuse, spoils; offscourings, scour-ings, sweepings; sawdust, shavings, parings, filings, scrapings, raspings; chuff, stubbles; slag, scum, sprue, dross, sordes, scoriae; (all of skin) slough, sheddings, sloughings, scurf, furfur, dandruff.
4. rubbish, trash, garbage, offal, refuse, sewage; swill, slop, hogwash, riffraff, Brit. Dial, raff, Scot. lave; carrion, bones, skeleton, fossil.
5. ruins, rubble, detritus, debris, litter; cinder, ashes, embers, coal, soot, carbon, dirt, smut; lava, sinter.
6. deposit, sediment, settlings, alluvium, silt; precipitation, condensation.
7. aftermath, consequence, aftergrowth, afterpart, afterglow, outgrowth, afterpart, afterglow, outgrowth; wake, trail, train; suffix, postfix, appendix, postscript, postface, subscript, postlude, epilogue.
8. inheritance, bequest, estate, property; right, entail, claim, title.
remake, v. make again, make over, redo, do over, refashion, re-form, reshape, re-create, reproduce; change, change around, revise, alter, modify, rewrite, restyle, rearrange, recompose; change into, convert, transform; reconstruct, rebuild, reconstitute, remodel, revamp; renovate, restore, renew, repair, fix up, repaint, revarnish, spruce up.