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 |
|---|---|
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |
| plane | airplane |
| compelling | that compels: such as |
| menagerie | a place where animals are kept and trained especially for exhibition |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |