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 |
|---|---|
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| hubbub | noise |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
| pliant | pliable |
| clangor | a resounding clang or medley of clangs |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |