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 |
|---|---|
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| progeny | descendants |
| denounce | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| phalanx | a body of heavily armed infantry in ancient Greece formed in close deep ranks and files |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| cadence | the beat, time, or measure of rhythmical motion or activity |