reaction
/ɹiˈækʃən/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.73 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A transformation in which one or more substances is converted into another by combination or decomposition.
noun
Reactionary politics; a period in which reactionary thought or politics is resurgent or dominant.
noun
Example Sentences
- "The announcement of the verdict brought a violent reaction."
- "You were in the courtroom. What is your reaction?"
- "When I last tried to eat strawberries I had a terrible allergic reaction."
- "In this reaction, the acid and base will neutralize each other, producing a salt."
- "And as Europe advanced year by year more deeply into the low featureless plains of reaction, censorship and mediocrity and the pestilential swamps of poverty, unhappiness and oppression, the image of the liberating revolution became ever more luminous."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English reaccion, from Old French reaction, from Latin reāctiō, from the verb reagō, from re- (“again”) + agō (“to act”); more at re-, action; equivalent to react + -ion.