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 |
|---|---|
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| prominent | standing out or projecting beyond a surface or line : protuberant |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| supersede | to cause to be set aside |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| niggle | trifle |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| enfranchise | to set free (as from slavery) |