| verb | cook with dry heat, usually in an oven “roast the turkey” |
| verb | subject to laughter or ridicule “The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house” |
| adjective | (meat) cooked by dry heat in an oven |
| roast | noun | a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion |
| roaster | noun | a special cooking pan for roasting |
| roasting | noun | cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added) |
| ridicule | noun | the act of deriding or treating with contempt |
| ridiculer | noun | a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm |
| rib | noun | a teasing remark |
| ribbing | noun | the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances |