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 |
|---|---|
| fastidious | showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| cue | the letter q |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| incisive | impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation) |
| quorum | a select group |