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 |
|---|---|
| eddy | a current of water or air running contrary to the main current |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| matrimony | the state of being married : marriage |
| grimace | a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| bookish | of or relating to books |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| heckler | one who heckles someone (such as a performer or speaker) usually by shouting criticisms or insults |