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 |
|---|---|
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
| fluke | flatfish |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| savant | a person of learning |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |