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 |
|---|---|
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| munificent | very liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
| dour | stern |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |