GRE Word List
RAGAMUFFIN
a ragged often disreputable person
The meaning of the word ragamuffin is a ragged often disreputable person.
Random words
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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 |
affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
spare | not being used |
rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
finesse | refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture |
sequester | to set apart : segregate |
pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |