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 |
|---|---|
| postulate | demand |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| odium | the state or fact of being subjected to hatred and contempt as a result of a despicable act or blameworthy circumstance |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| variegated | having discrete markings of different colors |
| equinox | either of the two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic |