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 |
|---|---|
| hothead | a hotheaded person |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| interloper | one that interlopes: such as |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| hazy | made dim or cloudy by or as if by fine dust, smoke, or light vapor in the air : obscured by or as if by haze (see haze |
| brackish | somewhat salty |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |