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 |
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| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| miscellany | separate writings collected in one volume |
| depose | to remove from a throne or other high position |
| hull | the outer covering of a fruit or seed |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |