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 |
|---|---|
| oscillate | to swing backward and forward like a pendulum |
| debonair | suave |
| ursine | of or relating to a bear or the bear family (Ursidae) |
| hapless | having no luck : unfortunate |
| damn | to condemn to a punishment or fate |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| debauch | to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |