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 |
|---|---|
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| filing | an act or instance of using a file |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| postulate | demand |
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| sidereal | of, relating to, or expressed in relation to stars or constellations : astral |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |