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 |
|---|---|
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| catholic | roman catholic |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| adjoin | to add or attach by joining |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |