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

WordMeaning
entomologya branch of zoology that deals with insects
betokento typify beforehand : presage
perturbto cause to be worried or upset : disquiet
ensueto strive to attain : pursue
maleficentworking or productive of harm or evil : baleful
cabalthe contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government)
nefariousflagrantly wicked or impious : evil
expletivea syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense
encipherto convert (a message) into cipher
putridbeing in a state of putrefaction : rotten