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 |
|---|---|
| uniformity | the quality or state of being uniform |
| fete | festival |
| prostrate | stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission |
| hurl | rush |
| stumble | to fall into sin or waywardness |
| garnish | decorate |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| idyllic | pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity |
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |