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 |
|---|---|
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| migrant | one that migrates: such as |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| compulsory | mandatory |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| douse | to plunge into water |
| unique | being the only one : sole |