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 |
|---|---|
| volatile | characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |