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 |
|---|---|
| disport | sport |
| chasten | to correct by punishment or suffering : discipline |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| privy | private |
| erroneous | containing or characterized by error : mistaken |
| jaded | fatigued by overwork : exhausted |
| encumber | weigh down |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |