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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| clout | a piece of cloth or leather : rag |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| frantic | emotionally out of control |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |