GRE Word List
RUDDY
having a healthy reddish color
The meaning of the word ruddy is having a healthy reddish color.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
---|---|
acrimonious | angry and bitter : caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
imperturbable | marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness : serene |
zealot | a zealous person |
emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
glutton | one given habitually to greedy and voracious eating and drinking |
hackles | one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird |
connoisseur | expert |
premonition | previous notice or warning : forewarning |
addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |