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 |
|---|---|
| bruise | an injury involving rupture of small blood vessels and discoloration without a break in the overlying skin : contusion |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| crestfallen | having a drooping crest or hanging head |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| abeyance | a state of temporary inactivity : suspension |
| voodoo | a religion that is derived from African polytheism and ancestor worship and is practiced chiefly in Haiti |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |