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 |
|---|---|
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| prosper | to succeed in an enterprise or activity |
| prong | fork |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |