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 |
|---|---|
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| chameleon | any of a family (Chamaeleontidae) of chiefly arboreal (see arboreal |
| slew | a large number |
| incoherent | lacking coherence: such as |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |