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 |
|---|---|
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| accede | to express approval or give consent : to agree to a request or demand |
| congenial | pleasant |
| callous | being hardened and thickened |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| wag | to be in motion : stir |
| furor | an angry or maniacal fit : rage |
| anomalous | inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected : irregular |