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 |
|---|---|
| meander | a winding path or course |
| artisan | a worker who practices a trade or handicraft : craftsperson |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |
| trough | a long shallow often V-shaped receptacle for the drinking water or feed of domestic animals |
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| overt | open to view : manifest |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| peruse | to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study |