GRE Word List
ANALOGY
a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect
The meaning of the word analogy is a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| coalesce | to grow together |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| threat | an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| addle | rotten |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |