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 |
|---|---|
| brisk | keenly alert : lively |
| onus | burden |
| tensile | capable of tension : ductile |
| enhance | heighten |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| ichthyology | a branch of zoology that deals with fishes |
| contagion | a contagious disease |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |