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 |
|---|---|
| portly | dignified |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| collate | to compare critically |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| alluvial | relating to, composed of, or found in alluvium |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |