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 |
|---|---|
| resign | relegate |
| aver | to declare positively |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |