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 |
|---|---|
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |
| plebiscite | a vote by which the people of an entire country or district express an opinion for or against a proposal especially on a choice of government or ruler |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
| prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| tertiary | of third rank, importance, or value |