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 |
|---|---|
| finesse | refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture |
| variegate | to diversify in external appearance especially with different colors : dapple |
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| corpuscle | a minute particle |
| homespun | spun or made at home |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |