GRE word list

draggle \DRAG-uhl\, verb

1. To soil by dragging over damp ground or in mud.

2. To trail on the ground; be or become draggled.

3. To follow slowly; straggle.

No skirts to hold up, or to draggle their wet folds against my ankles; no stifling veil flapping in my face, 

and blinding my eyes; no umbrella to turn inside out, but instead, the cool rain driving slap into my face…

-- Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall and Other Writing

You can't run through the streets after the water baths in that thing you draggle around the house.

-- Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Anya

Draggle is obviously related to this more common word drag. It entered English in the late 1400s. The 

suffix -le is a verb formation from Middle English, also seen in dazzle and twinkle, among others.

ombudsman \OM-buhdz-muhn\, noun

A government official who hears and investigates complaints by private citizens against other officials or government agencies.

Despite these common characteristics of ombudsman systems, there are significant variations across national 

contexts. The Swedish and Danish ombudsmen exemplify two different models.

-- Bruce E. Cain, Russell J. Dalton, Susan E. Scarrow, Democracy Transformed?

You have reached the Washington Sun's ombudsman desk. If you feel you have been inaccurately quoted, press one. If you spoke to a reporter off the record but were identified in the article, press two…

-- Christopher Buckley, Thank You for Smoking

Fate, or destiny, under God, is the poor man's omnipotent ombudsman.

-- Robert Irwin, The Arabian Nights

Ombudsman comes from the Swedish word ombud which means "agent, attorney." It entered English in the 1910s.