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 |
|---|---|
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| buffoon | a ludicrous figure : clown |
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |
| reverie | daydream |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| detraction | a lessening of reputation or esteem especially by envious, malicious, or petty criticism : belittling |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| conspire | plot |