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 |
|---|---|
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| oratorio | a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| hatch | a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship) |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |