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 |
|---|---|
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| fathomless | incapable of being fathomed : immeasurable |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| peccadillo | a slight offense |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |