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 |
|---|---|
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| bucolic | of or relating to shepherds or herdsmen : pastoral |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| bilious | of or relating to a yellow or greenish fluid that is secreted by the liver and that aids especially in the emulsification and absorption of fats : of or relating to bile (see bile |
| titanic | having great magnitude, force, or power : colossal |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| purge | to clear of guilt |