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 |
|---|---|
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| corporeal | having, consisting of, or relating to a physical material body: such as |
| bevy | a large group or collection |
| pique | to excite or arouse especially by a provocation, challenge, or rebuff |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| venal | capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration : purchasable |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |