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echo, echoing, repeating, duplication, duplicating, rehearsal,<br />

recapitulation, restatement, replication, rereading, retelling,<br />

relisting, recital, reprise, rerun, rerunning: We sat through a<br />

repetition of every name for the benefit of any who might have<br />

missed it the first time.<br />

repetitious<br />

adj. tiresome, tedious, boring, redundant, prolix, windy,<br />

long-winded, wordy, tautological, pleonastic: Streatham's<br />

lectures are very repetitious - he makes the same point over and<br />

over again.<br />

repetitive<br />

adj. iterative, repetitious, incessant, monotonous, repeated,<br />

redundant, humdrum, unceasing, ceaseless, relentless,<br />

unremitting, persistent, recurrent, non-stop, uninterrupted,<br />

continual, constant, continuous: The repetitive beat of that<br />

rock music is driving me mad.<br />

replace v. 1 change, put in place of, substitute, supplant, renew: If<br />

the toy won't work, try replacing the batteries. 2 succeed,<br />

supersede, substitute for, take over from, supplant: Tim will<br />

be replacing David as department head. 3 restore, return, put<br />

back, make good (on), repay, refund, make restitution for: Are<br />

you going to replace the money you took?<br />

replenish v. refill, restock, restore, renew, replace, fill, top up;<br />

furnish, provide: They stopped off in Bordeaux to replenish<br />

their supplies.<br />

replete adj. 1 Often, replete with. full (of), filled up (with),<br />

overflowing (with), well supplied or well provided or well<br />

stocked (with), chock-full (of), crammed or jammed or jam-packed<br />

(with), brim-full (with), chock-a-block, bursting, teeming,<br />

loaded, overloaded (with), gorged (with), stuffed (with), Colloq<br />

up to the eyes or ears (in), up to here or there (in), US up to<br />

the old wazoo (in), Slang lousy (with), Taboo slang up to the<br />

Brit arse (in) or US ass (in): His speech was replete with<br />

names, dates, and precise quotations, all delivered without a<br />

note of any kind. 2 satisfied, sated, satiated: After a meal<br />

like that, anybody would feel replete.<br />

replica n. copy, duplicate, facsimile, reproduction, likeness,

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