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 |
|---|---|
| tipple | to drink liquor especially by habit or to excess |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |
| attentive | mindful |
| shove | to push along |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| incoherent | lacking coherence: such as |
| margin | the part of a page or sheet outside the main body of printed or written matter |