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 |
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| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| glossy | having a surface luster or brightness |
| disinclination | a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| hygiene | a science of the establishment and maintenance of health |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |