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 |
|---|---|
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| infiltrate | to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| scorch | to burn a surface of so as to change its color and texture |
| rift | fissure |
| culinary | of or relating to the kitchen or cookery |
| capricious | governed or characterized by caprice : impulsive |