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 |
|---|---|
| check | to inspect, examine, or look at appraisingly or appreciatively |
| celibate | of, relating to, or characterized by celibacy: |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| incentive | something that incites or has a tendency to incite to determination or action |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| satyr | a sylvan deity in Greek mythology having certain characteristics of a horse or goat and fond of Dionysian revelry |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |