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 |
|---|---|
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| doddering | feeble |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| willowy | abounding with willows |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| viscous | having a thick or sticky consistency : viscid |