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 |
|---|---|
| passe | past one's prime |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| spruce | to make spruce |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| savor | the taste or smell of something |
| postulate | demand |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |