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 |
|---|---|
| steep | lofty |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| candor | unreserved, honest, or sincere expression : forthrightness |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| reckon | count |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |