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 |
|---|---|
| spat | squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| granulate | to form or crystallize into grains or granules |
| foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |