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 |
|---|---|
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| forebears | ancestor |
| novelty | something new or unusual |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |