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 |
|---|---|
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| disingenuous | lacking in candor |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| natal | native |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| thrifty | given to or marked by economy and good management |
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |