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 |
|---|---|
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| mete | to give out by measure : dole out |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| habituate | to make used to something : accustom |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| maternal | of, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of a mother : motherly |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| fervid | very hot : burning |