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 |
|---|---|
| score | twenty |
| alcove | a small recessed section of a room : nook |
| modicum | a small portion : a limited quantity |
| soporific | causing or tending to cause sleep |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |