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 |
|---|---|
| harry | to make a pillaging or destructive raid on : assault |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| giddy | dizzy |
| attentive | mindful |
| bookish | of or relating to books |
| tarry | to delay or be tardy in acting or doing |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| fidelity | the quality or state of being faithful |
| supposition | something that is supposed : hypothesis |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |