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 |
|---|---|
| indite | make up |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |
| viand | an item of food |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| grotto | cave |
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| circuitous | having a circular or winding course |
| repel | to drive back : repulse |