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 |
|---|---|
| earn | to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| reverie | daydream |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |