GRE Word List
ALLITERATION
the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs)
The meaning of the word alliteration is the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pedagogy | the art, science, or profession of teaching |
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |