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 |
|---|---|
| slovenly | untidy especially in personal appearance |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| residual | remainder |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| helm | a lever or wheel controlling the rudder of a ship for steering |
| trappings | outward signs |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |