Verbs that start with R

You restrain someone else when you hold them back and stop them from doing something. You can also restrain yourself, for example by stopping yourself having a second helping of dessert you are restraining yourself from eating too much. The man in the picture is restraining his friend.

You return when you come back after being away. If you take something and put it back later, you return it. The man in the picture is returning from time away.

You ride something when you sit on or in it and it takes you places, or does something interesting. Usually you ride a bike or a horse to go somewhere, and you ride something like a Ferris wheel or other fairground ride for fun.

Rip is another word for tear, where you damage something by pulling it in two different directions at once until it breaks.

Risk is a measure of the chance of something going wrong, and what bad things will happen if it goes wrong. For example, you have a higher risk of having a heart attack as you get older and fatter. Risk is also exposing yourself to the possibility of something bad happening, for example the man in the picture is risking falling off the ladder by standing too high on it to hang his wares.