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 |
|---|---|
| frolic | full of fun : merry |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| catapult | an ancient military device for hurling missiles |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |
| melee | a confused struggle |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| log | a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |