GRE Word List
SIMILE
a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor
The meaning of the word simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| manipulate | to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner |
| recipient | one that receives : receiver |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |
| viand | an item of food |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| emend | to correct usually by textual alterations |