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 |
|---|---|
| impregnate | to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| oblivious | lacking remembrance, memory, or mindful attention |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| irate | roused to ire |