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 |
|---|---|
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |