Now your brain will never reject that the meaning of the prefix re- is âbackâ or âagain.â Reflect upon re-, and your vocabulary prowess will never regress! 1  reject: throw âbackâ. 2  recede: move âbackâ.  reduce: lead âbackâ.
1 Rattlesnakes rattle by shaking the rings at the end of their tails. 2  Water moccasins' mouths have a white, cottony lining.  Coral snakes have red, yellow and black rings along the length of their bodies.
Hypernyms (rattle is a kind of...): tail (the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body). Holonyms (rattle is a part of...): rattler; rattlesnake (pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken).