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 |
|---|---|
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| amalgam | a mixture of different elements |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| vantage | a position giving a strategic advantage, commanding perspective, or comprehensive view |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| adamant | unshakable or insistent especially in maintaining a position or opinion : unyielding |