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 |
|---|---|
| expatriate | banish |
| lubricate | to make smooth or slippery |
| eddy | a current of water or air running contrary to the main current |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| plumb | a lead weight attached to a line and used to indicate a vertical direction |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| prank | trick |
| antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |