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 |
|---|---|
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| significant | having meaning |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| romp | one that romps |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |