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 |
|---|---|
| therapeutic | of or relating to the treatment of disease or disorders by remedial agents or methods : curative |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| inclement | lacking mildness: such as |