GRE Word List
ANALOGOUS
similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail
The meaning of the word analogous is similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| prodigy | a highly talented child or youth |
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| seduce | to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |