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reception, n. 1. receipt, recipience, admission, acceptance, admittance, access, ingress; welcome, greeting, hello.
2. levee, formal party, soiree, social, tea, wedding party; audience, hearing, interview,

receptive, adj. 1. perceptive, sensitive, quick on the uptake, quick-witted, sharp-witted; keen, astute, alert, bright, intelligent, perspicacious, clear-sighted; like a sponge, like a blotter, like a steel trap.
2. open, open-minded, undogmatic, open to suggestion, suggestible, amenable; acceptant, influenceable, persuadable, persuasible; pliant, tractable, flexible, plastic; responsive, willing, interested, involved, engage.

receptiveness, n. perceptiveness, sensitivity, intelligence, quickness, acuity, sharpness, keenness; openmindedness, openness, accessibility, acceptance, responsiveness; willingness, eagerness, eagerness to listen, interest; suasiveness, pliancy, flexibility.

recess, n. 1. respite, interval, interlude, intermission; rest, relief, breathing spell, breather; time out, playtime, pause, lull, Inf. letup, break, coffee break, Inf. taking five; day off, long weekend, holiday, vacation.
2. nook, niche, cranny, corner, alcove, bay, bay window, oriel; side altar, chapel.
3. indentation, notch, hiatus, gap, scoop, hole, hollow; gulf, fissure, scission.
4. recesses penetralia, interior, innards, bowels, depths, heart; inner sanctum, sanctuary, asylum, refuge; retreat, Archaic, privacy, hideout.
-v. 5. niche, pigeonhole, hide, retreat.
6. rest, SI. knock off, Inf. take five, break, take a break, gather at the water cooler, go for coffee, go out to play, call it a day; close up shop, Inf. go fishing, vacation; adjourn, adjourn sine die, prorogue.

recession, n. 1. withdrawal, retirement, regression, retrogression; retreat, turning back, reversal, reversion; moving away, receding, going, leaving, departure.
2. indentation, hollow, curvature, obliquity, inclination; nook, niche. See - recess (def. 2).
3. (of business) slump, crisis, depression, hard times, mini-depression, slowdown, downturn; bear market, inflation; stagflation.

recherche, adj. special, singular, exceptional, unique, individual, one of a kind; prize, valuable, priceless, invaluable, costly, expensive; rare, scarce, in short supply, not to be found, not to be had, Inf. scarcer than hen's teeth; different, unusual, uncommon, out of the ordinary, unfamiliar; exotic, strange, foreign, alien, outland; outlandish, unheard-of, seldom seen, odd, curious, peculiar, weird, Inf. way-out; arcane, recondite, little known, esoteric, abtruse, obscure,

recidivism, n. repeated relapse, habitual backsliding, chronic repetition; reversion, regression, retrogression, falling back, lapse, deterioration, decline, degeneration, retrogradation, declension,

recipe, n. 1. prescription, Rx, formula, receipt.
2. method, technique, system, way, means, process, procedure.

recipient, n. receiver, beneficiary, legatee. See - receiver (def. 1).

reciprocal, adj. 1. mutual, Archaic, commutual, returned, exchanged, interchanged, reciprocative, reciprocatory; retaliative, retaliatory, requited, retributive; alternate, alternated, shared, give-and-take, to-and-fro, back-and-forth, Inf. flip-flop.
2. correlative, correspondent, corresponding, interrelated, conforming, equivalent, common, similar,