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 |
|---|---|
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| resign | relegate |
| philatelist | a specialist in philately : one who collects or studies stamps |
| dulcet | sweet to the taste |
| crust | the hardened exterior or surface part of bread |
| seemly | good-looking |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| intimate | marked by a warm friendship developing through long association |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |