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 |
|---|---|
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| interminable | having or seeming to have no end |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| buffoonery | foolish or playful behavior or practice |
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| interstice | a space that intervenes between things |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| fuddle | booze |