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 |
|---|---|
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| obituary | a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |