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 |
|---|---|
| interrogate | to question formally and systematically |
| turbid | thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| ambidextrous | using both hands with equal ease or dexterity |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| addendum | a thing added : addition |
| romp | one that romps |
| concur | to express agreement |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |