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 |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| incompatible | not compatible: such as |
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
| excoriate | to wear off the skin of : abrade |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| protean | of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |