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 |
|---|---|
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| fabricate | invent |
| metropolis | the chief or capital city of a country, state, or region |
| alleviate | relieve |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |