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 |
|---|---|
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| historical | of, relating to, or having the character of history |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| natal | native |