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 |
|---|---|
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| comport | to be fitting : accord |
| interloper | one that interlopes: such as |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| warranted | sanction |
| contempt | the act of despising : the state of mind of one who despises : disdain |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| drastic | acting rapidly or violently |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |