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 |
|---|---|
| entomology | a branch of zoology that deals with insects |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |