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 |
|---|---|
| amorous | strongly moved by love and especially sexual love |
| discriminate | to mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| judiciary | a system of courts of law |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| expository | of, relating to, or containing exposition |
| nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |