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 |
|---|---|
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
| disclaim | to make a disclaimer |
| bromide | a binary compound of bromine with another element or a radical including some (such as potassium bromide) used as sedatives |
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |