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 |
|---|---|
| writhe | to twist into coils or folds |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| askew | out of line : at an angle |
| betray | to lead astray |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |