GRE Word List
RANSACK
to look through thoroughly in often a rough way
The meaning of the word ransack is to look through thoroughly in often a rough way.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| flighty | swift |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| equinox | either of the two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic |
| court | the residence or establishment of a sovereign or similar dignitary |
| impassioned | filled with passion or zeal : showing great warmth or intensity of feeling |
| accessible | capable of being reached |
| biting | having the power to bite |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |