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 |
|---|---|
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| guy | man |
| buttress | a projecting structure of masonry or wood for supporting or giving stability to a wall or building |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| repast | something taken as food : meal |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |