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 |
|---|---|
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| adept | thoroughly proficient : expert |
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| disparate | markedly distinct in quality or character |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| steep | lofty |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |