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 |
|---|---|
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| misanthrope | a person who hates or distrusts humankind |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |
| belligerent | inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness |
| rhapsody | a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation |