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 |
|---|---|
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| diurnal | active chiefly in the daytime |
| pendant | something suspended: such as |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| languid | drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion : weak |