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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |
| constitution | the basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it |
| prestige | standing or estimation in the eyes of people : weight or credit in general opinion |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| extirpate | to destroy completely : wipe out |