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 |
|---|---|
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| misanthrope | a person who hates or distrusts humankind |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| uniformity | the quality or state of being uniform |
| disbar | to expel from the bar or the legal profession : deprive (an attorney) of legal status and privileges |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| disparity | a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity |
| raconteur | a person who excels in telling anecdotes |