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 |
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masquerade | a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic costumes |
husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
feint | something feigned |
exult | to be extremely joyful : rejoice |
paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
increment | the amount or degree by which something changes |