GRE Word List
RAG
a waste piece of cloth
The meaning of the word rag is a waste piece of cloth.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| prevail | to gain ascendancy through strength or superiority : triumph |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| serpentine | of or resembling a serpent (as in form or movement) |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |