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 |
|---|---|
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| berate | to scold or condemn vehemently and at length |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| psyche | a princess loved by Cupid |