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 |
|---|---|
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |
| proclivity | an inclination or predisposition toward something |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| imminent | ready to take place : happening soon |
| subtlety | the quality or state of being subtle |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| satiate | filled to satiety |