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 |
|---|---|
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| spruce | to make spruce |
| vendetta | blood feud |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |