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 |
|---|---|
| rendition | the act or result of rendering something: such as |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| canvass | to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or to determine opinions or sentiments |
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |