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 |
|---|---|
| blare | to sound loud and strident |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| marked | having an identifying mark |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| resign | relegate |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |