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 |
|---|---|
| jumble | to move in a confused or disordered manner |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| motility | the quality or state of being motile : capability of movement |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| disjointed | being thrown out of orderly function |
| harass | exhaust |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| nectar | the drink of the Greek and Roman gods |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |