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).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| sordid | marked by baseness or grossness : vile |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |
| regicide | a person who kills a king |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |
| scion | descendant |