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 |
|---|---|
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| clemency | disposition to be merciful and especially to moderate the severity of punishment due |
| wastrel | vagabond |
| adjourn | to suspend indefinitely or until a later stated time |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| irreconcilable | impossible to reconcile |
| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |