GRE Word List
RAGAMUFFIN
a ragged often disreputable person
The meaning of the word ragamuffin is a ragged often disreputable person.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| botch | an inflammatory sore |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| withdrawn | removed from immediate contact or easy approach : isolated |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| blunder | to move unsteadily or confusedly |