GRE Word List
RUDDY
having a healthy reddish color
The meaning of the word ruddy is having a healthy reddish color.
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| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| volition | the power of choosing or determining : will |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| centurion | an officer commanding a Roman century |