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 |
|---|---|
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| exult | to be extremely joyful : rejoice |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| narrative | something that is narrated : story |
| rail | a bar extending from one post or support to another and serving as a guard or barrier |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |