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 |
|---|---|
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| audit | a formal examination of an organization's or individual's accounts or financial situation |
| cameo | a gem carved in relief (see relief |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| verge | brink |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| infernal | of or relating to a nether world of the dead |