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 |
|---|---|
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| smudge | to make a smudge on |
| motley | variegated in color |
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| monetary | of or relating to money or to the mechanisms by which it is supplied to and circulates in the economy |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |