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 |
|---|---|
| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| balmy | having the qualities of balm : soothing |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |