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 |
|---|---|
| precipitant | precipitate |
| prodigious | causing amazement or wonder |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| unison | identity in musical pitch |
| incubus | an evil spirit that lies on persons in their sleep |
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| undermine | to subvert or weaken insidiously or secretly |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |