GRE Word List
RUFFIAN
a brutal person : bully
The meaning of the word ruffian is a brutal person : bully.
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condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
executioner | one who executes |
aspire | to seek to attain or accomplish a particular goal |
expository | of, relating to, or containing exposition |
subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
glaring | having a fixed look of hostility, fierceness, or anger |
vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
gnarl | snarl |
retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |