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 |
|---|---|
| dint | force |
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| sentinel | sentry |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |