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 |
|---|---|
| obelisk | an upright 4-sided usually monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid |
| significant | having meaning |
| glean | to gather grain or other produce left by reapers |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of dislike |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| rococo | rococo work or style |