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 |
|---|---|
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| judicious | having, exercising, or characterized by sound judgment |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| stout | strong of character: such as |