Glossary beginning with R
- Reaping
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Cutting stalks of wheat at the stem.
- Reconciliation
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Aboriginal reconciliation is an act that goes towards acknowledging the actions of European settllers and beginning to heal the relationship between indigneous and non-indigneous people through mutal understanding and acceptance.
- Reference collections
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Commonly used books in a library, including dictionaries and encyclopedias which can't be borrowed so that people can access them at all times.
- Resistance
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A secret force trying to undermine the invading army.
- Retrenched
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When someone loses their job.
- Revolutionary
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Causing great change in a society; disrupting the social order of things.
- Royal Commission
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An independent body with certain legal powers which is set up by the government to report on a particular issue
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)
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Originally founded as the Working Men?s College in 1887, RMIT is now a modern university with a focus on technology.
- Royal Military College
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The Royal Military College, Duntroon is Australia?s military academy, where cadets train to be accepted as officers in the Australian army.