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 |
|---|---|
| disquietude | anxiety |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| peremptory | putting an end to or precluding a right of action, debate, or delay |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| eloquence | discourse marked by force and persuasiveness |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| intermediary | mediator |
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |