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 |
|---|---|
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| draft | the act of drawing or pulling in a net |
| expatiate | to move about freely or at will : wander |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |