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 |
|---|---|
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| earmark | a mark of identification on the ear of an animal |
| alleviate | relieve |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| ichthyology | a branch of zoology that deals with fishes |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |