GRE Word List

TRANSMUTE

to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form

The meaning of the word transmute is to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form.

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mangleto injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing
inscrutablenot readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious
temperatehaving a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature
aridexcessively dry
prudea person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum
gildto overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold
herbivorousfeeding on plants
trickleto issue or fall in drops
teneta principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true
mangeany of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange