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 |
|---|---|
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| indigenous | produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
| reconcile | to restore to friendship or harmony |
| pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |