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 |
|---|---|
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| penchant | a strong and continued inclination |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| surge | to rise and fall actively : toss |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |