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 |
|---|---|
| omnivorous | feeding on both animal and vegetable substances |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |
| prophetic | of, relating to, or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| fit | acceptable from a particular viewpoint (as of competence or morality) : proper |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| lien | a charge upon real or personal property for the satisfaction of some debt or duty ordinarily arising by operation of law |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |