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 |
|---|---|
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| profligate | wildly extravagant |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |
| hail | precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |