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 |
|---|---|
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| rubric | an authoritative rule |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| terminology | the technical or special terms used in a business, art, science, or special subject |
| shack | hut |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |