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 |
|---|---|
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| annul | to declare or make legally invalid or void |
| trek | to make one's way arduously |
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| improvident | not provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future |
| flush | to fly away suddenly |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |