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 |
|---|---|
| actuary | clerk |
| healthful | beneficial to health of body or mind |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| amass | to collect for oneself : accumulate |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |
| philistine | a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia |
| psychopathic | of, relating to, or characterized by psychopathy |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| unfrock | defrock |