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 |
|---|---|
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| premonition | previous notice or warning : forewarning |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| gust | the sensation of taste |
| paramour | lover |
| stodgy | having a rich filling quality : heavy |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| traduce | to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation |