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 |
|---|---|
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
| valor | strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness : personal bravery |
| scurrilous | using or given to coarse language |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| dour | stern |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |