GRE Word List
RUFFIAN
a brutal person : bully
The meaning of the word ruffian is a brutal person : bully.
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| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| discrete | constituting a separate entity : individually distinct |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| disinterested | not having the mind or feelings engaged (see engaged |