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 |
|---|---|
| accoutre | to provide with equipment or furnishings : outfit |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| odium | the state or fact of being subjected to hatred and contempt as a result of a despicable act or blameworthy circumstance |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| gust | the sensation of taste |