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 |
|---|---|
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
| dingy | dirty |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| delta | the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet see Alphabet Table |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| sound | a particular auditory impression : tone |
| jaundice | yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |