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 |
|---|---|
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| apiculture | the keeping of bees especially on a large scale |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| reiterate | to state or do over again or repeatedly sometimes with wearying effect |
| sectarian | of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian |