GRE Word List
TRANSPOSE
to change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of
The meaning of the word transpose is to change the relative place or normal order of : alter the sequence of.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| rider | one that rides |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |