GRE Word List
RUMMAGE
to make a thorough search or investigation
The meaning of the word rummage is to make a thorough search or investigation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| credo | a guiding belief or principle : creed |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| acclaim | applaud |
| insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |