| rag | (noun) a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students) | - |
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| (noun) a small piece of cloth | Synonyms: shred, tag, tag end, tatter |
| (noun) newspaper with half-size pages | Synonyms: sheet, tabloid |
| (noun) music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano) | Synonyms: ragtime |
| (noun) a week at British universities during which side-shows and processions of floats are organized to raise money for charities | Synonyms: rag week |
| ragamuffin | (noun) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin | Synonyms: tatterdemalion |
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| ragbag | (noun) a bag in which rags are kept | - |
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| (noun) a motley assortment of things | Synonyms: farrago, gallimaufry, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, melange, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum |
| rage | (noun) an interest followed with exaggerated zeal | Synonyms: craze, cult, fad, furor, furore |
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| (noun) a feeling of intense anger | Synonyms: fury, madness |
| (noun) a state of extreme anger | - |
| (noun) violent state of the elements | - |
| (noun) something that is desired intensely | Synonyms: passion |
| ragee | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragi |
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| raggedness | (noun) shabbiness by virtue of being in rags | - |
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| (noun) a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven | Synonyms: roughness |
| ragi | (noun) East Indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the Orient | Synonyms: African millet, coracan, corakan, Eleusine coracana, finger millet, kurakkan, ragee |
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| raglan | (noun) a garment (coat or sweater) that has raglan sleeves | - |
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| ragout | (noun) well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables | - |
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| ragpicker | (noun) an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood | - |
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| ragsorter | (noun) a worker who sorts rags and old clothing for new uses (as in papermaking) | - |
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| ragtag | (noun) disparaging terms for the common people | Synonyms: rabble, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff |
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| ragtime | (noun) music with a syncopated melody (usually for the piano) | Synonyms: rag |
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| ragweed | (noun) any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma | Synonyms: ambrosia, bitterweed |
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| (noun) widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity | Synonyms: benweed, ragwort, Senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort |
| ragwort | (noun) widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity | Synonyms: benweed, ragweed, Senecio jacobaea, tansy ragwort |
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| (noun) American ragwort with yellow flowers | Synonyms: butterweed, Senecio glabellus |