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 |
|---|---|
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| philatelist | a specialist in philately : one who collects or studies stamps |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| indite | make up |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| suspense | the state of being suspended : suspension |
| vignette | a picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper |
| mortician | undertaker |