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 |
|---|---|
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| precise | exactly or sharply defined or stated |
| bigotry | obstinate or intolerant devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices : the state of mind of a bigot |
| fiend | devil |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| aspirant | one who aspires |
| fulcrum | prop |