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 |
|---|---|
| illuminate | to supply or brighten with light |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| stringent | tight |
| helm | a lever or wheel controlling the rudder of a ship for steering |
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| bland | smooth and soothing in manner or quality |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| zealot | a zealous person |