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 |
|---|---|
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| stench | stink |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| deviate | to stray especially from a standard, principle, or topic |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |