GRE Word List
RANSACK
search thoroughly; pillage (going through a place); Ex. Enemy soldiers ransacked the town.
The meaning of the word ransack is search thoroughly; pillage (going through a place); Ex. Enemy soldiers ransacked the town..
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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inept | unsuited; inappropriate; lacking skill; incompetent; CF. inapt: (of statements or ideas) inappropriate |
perennial | something long-lasting; perennial plant; ADJ: lasting through the year or many years; lasting for a long time; enduring |
vagrant | homeless wanderer |
infernal | pertaining to hell; devilish; N. inferno: place of fiery heat or destruction |
flippant | lacking proper seriousness; Ex. flippant remarks about death; N. flippancy |
celibate | abstaining from sexual intercourse; unmarried; N. celibacy |
alliteration | repetition of beginning sound in poetry |
bellicose | warlike |
granary | storehouse for grain |
parable | short simple story teaching a moral |