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 |
|---|---|
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| barefaced | having the face uncovered: |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |