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 |
|---|---|
| condign | deserved |
| postmortem | done, occurring, or collected after death |
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| conspiracy | the act of conspiring together |
| ferocious | exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |
| sinuous | of a serpentine or wavy form : winding |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |