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 |
|---|---|
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| salubrious | favorable to or promoting health or well-being |
| exhume | disinter |
| prosody | the study of versification |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| glimmer | to shine faintly or unsteadily |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |