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 |
|---|---|
| vying | contending; to strive for superiority |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| ornithologist | a branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| provident | frugal |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |