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 |
|---|---|
| vouch | to supply supporting evidence or testimony |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
| gerrymander | the act or method of gerrymandering |
| dupe | one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| academic | of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |