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 |
|---|---|
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| beget | to procreate as the father : sire |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable |
| linguistic | of or relating to language or linguistics |
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| mannerism | exaggerated or affected (see affected |
| inflated | distended with air or gas |