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 |
|---|---|
| billow | wave |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| pending | during |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| intolerant | unable or unwilling to endure |
| rakish | of, relating to, or characteristic of a rake : dissolute |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| bent | unenclosed grassland |
| stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |