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 |
|---|---|
| miscellaneous | consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous |
| tan | to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| balk | to refuse abruptly |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |