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 |
|---|---|
| subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| transpire | to take place : go on |
| brazen | made of brass |
| stygian | of or relating to the river Styx |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |
| conglomerate | made up of parts from various sources or of various kinds |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |