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 |
|---|---|
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| autonomous | having the right or power of self-government |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| determinate | having defined limits |