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 |
|---|---|
| uproarious | marked by uproar |
| sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| percussion | the act of percussing: such as |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |
| plume | a feather of a bird: such as |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |