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 |
|---|---|
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| complement | something that fills up, completes, or makes better or perfect |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| marshal | a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| visceral | felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body : deep |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |