GRE Word List
SPOONERISM
a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil)
The meaning of the word spoonerism is a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |
| consanguinity | the quality or state of being consanguineous |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| influx | a coming in |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |