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 |
|---|---|
| encompass | include |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| bogus | not genuine : counterfeit |
| vital | of the utmost importance |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| ascribe | to refer to a supposed cause, source, or author : to say or think that (something) is caused by, comes from, or is associated with a particular person or thing |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| sphinx-like | enigmatic; mysterious |