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 |
|---|---|
| resolve | to deal with successfully : clear up |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| tumult | disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion |
| treatise | a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| absolute | free from imperfection : perfect |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |