5. reply, retort, answer, respond, come back, recriminate, rebut, rejoin, Law. surrejoin, Law. surrebut; reflect, cast back, repeat, echo, reecho, resound, reverberate, ring.
6. yield, pay back, remunerate, compensate.
7. render, report, announce, pronounce, pass sentence or judgment, adjudicate.
-n. 8. recurrence, repetition, reappearance, renewal, recrudescence; duplication, iteration, reiteration, rehearsal, recapitulation.
9. response, reply, answer, rejoinder, comeback, rebuttal, retort, repartee, riposte, counterstatement, counterblast, countercharge, Law. rebutter, Law. surrebutter, Law. surrejoinder; echo, reverberation, an-tiphon.
10. gain, profits, revenue, income, proceeds, Archaic. avails; yield, interest, increase, rent, earnings;
crop, harvest, bounty; advantage, benefit.
11. reciprocation, requital, compensation, consideration, quittance, reward, Archaic, meed, Literary, guerdon; repayment, reimbursement, indemnification, indemnity, recompense; reparation, restitution, amends, atonement, retribution; retaliation, vindication, redress, quid pro quo.
12. homecoming, arrival, advent, comeback, re entry, repatriation; restoration, rehabilitation, reinvestment, reinstatement.
13. reversion, regression, regress, retrogression,
retrogradation, recidivism, atavism.
14. report, financial statement, account.
revamp, v. renovate, repair, recondition, refurbish, rehabilitate, refit, overhaul, give a face-lift to, facelift; mend, fix, fix up, patch up, put into shape.
reveal, v. 1. make known, disclose, divulge, bring out, bring out into the open, bring to light; tell, impart, inform, Inf. tip off, relate, utter, declare, state, Archaic, discover, break the news; release, report, publish, Archaic, divulgate, print; advertise, broadcast, proclaim, announce, herald, trumpet; vociferate, voice, give mouth or voice to, air, vent, ventilate, communicate, let be known; disbosom, disembosom, get [s.t.] off one's chest, make a clean breast of [s.t.], unburden oneself, confess, SI. fess up, own up, admit, acknowledge; blurt out, blab, leak, give away, Inf. let out, let slip, let the cat out of the bag, spill the beans, SI. blow the lid off; tell everything, Inf. give away the whole show, tell all or all one knows, SI. spill one's guts, SI. open up; betray, Inf. blow the whistle on, SI. pull the plug on, Inf. pull the rug out from underneath [s.o.]; tattle, tattletale, tell or inform on, All SI. squeal, squeak, rat, fink, stool, peach.
2. lay open, display, exhibit, Inf. lay one's cards on the table, tip or show one's hand, show, indicate, point out, make manifest; expose, uncover, bare, take the wraps off, unveil, unmask, show up, show one's true colors, come out of the closet, Inf. come out; discover, decry, detect, find, uncover, unearth, exhume, dig up, smoke out.
-n. 3. revelation, disclosure, revealment. See - revelation (def. 1.).
revel, v. 1. Usu.
revel in delight, rejoice, take great pleasure, like, love, Inf. adore; enjoy, appreciate, relish, savor, gloat over, feast on, Inf. smack the lips; glory, indulge, luxuriate, bask, wallow, swim, bathe; All SI. groove on, get high on, get a kick or lift or charge or bang or boot out of.
2. carouse, roister, wassail, make merry, cut loose, let loose, Inf. step out, whoop it up, SI. make whoopee; drink, tipple, bouse, Inf. booze, SI. hit the bottle or booze or sauce, SI. souse, SI. scoop a few, SI. knock a few back; go on a spree, make the rounds, SI. tie one on, SI. go on a drunk or binge or bender or hellbender or toot or tear or bat or jag, Sl. paint the town red, Sl. barhop, Sl. bar-crawl, Brit. Sl. pub-crawl; debauch, dissipate, wanton, sow wild oats, have one's fling; overindulge, overdo, burn the candle at both ends.