GRE Word List
METAPHOR
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money)
The meaning of the word metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |
| unassailable | not assailable : not liable to doubt, attack, or question |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| indifferent | marked by a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern for something : apathetic |
| provincial | the superior of a province of a Roman Catholic religious order |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| mediate | occupying a middle position |
| obsequious | marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |