re- root meaning
The re- root means back, again, or backward motion.
Words with the re- root
- rebel: resister against authority
- recalcitrance: stubborn resistance to authority or control
- recalcitrant: stubbornly resistant to authority or control
- recalcitrate: to kick back or resist stubbornly
- recant: to formally take back a statement
- recede: to move back or withdraw
- recline: to lean back
- recluse: socially withdrawn person
- recognize: to know again or identify
- reconcile: to restore friendly relations or make things consistent
- reconciliation: restoration of agreement, friendship, or consistency
- recondite: obscure, hidden, or difficult to understand
- recourse: a source of help or option one can turn back to
- refractory: stubbornly hard to manage
- refute: to prove false
- regress: to move backward or return to an earlier state
- reject: to refuse or throw back
- relegate: to send to a lower rank or less important place
- renounce: to give up or reject formally
- repel: to push away or drive back
- replenish: to fill again
- replenishment: filling again
- replete: filled full; abundantly supplied
- reprobate: morally unprincipled person