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 |
|---|---|
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| philanderer | a man who has sexual relations with many women |
| reciprocate | to give and take mutually |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| insipid | lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull |
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |