prepose

[pree-pohz]

pre·pose

[pree-pohz]
verb (used with object), pre·posed, pre·pos·ing. Grammar.
to place (a grammatical form) before a related grammatical form: The adverb “out” of “put the light out” is preposed in “put out the light.”

Origin:
1655–65; probably back formation from preposition1; compare obsolete prepose to set over < Middle French preposer; see pre-, pose1
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Prepose is always a great word to know.
So is circumflex. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a circumflex mark or accent.
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prepose

verb
place before another constituent in the sentence; "English preposes the adpositions; Japanese postposes them" 
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