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 |
|---|---|
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| cartographer | one that makes maps |
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| occident | west |