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 |
|---|---|
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| rhapsody | a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation |
| decipher | decode |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| plumber | a dealer or worker in lead |
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
