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 |
|---|---|
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| misgivings | a feeling of doubt or suspicion especially concerning a future event |
| shift | to exchange for or replace by another : change |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| molt | to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically |
| valid | having legal efficacy or force |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |