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 |
|---|---|
| skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
| ossify | to change into bone |
| wistful | full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy |
| gentle | free from harshness, sternness, or violence |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| disquisition | a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| incandescent | white, glowing, or luminous with intense heat |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |