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 |
|---|---|
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| imbecility | the quality or state of being very stupid or foolish : utter foolishness |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| panoramic | of, relating to, or resembling a panorama: such as |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |