GRE Word List
CARICATURE
exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics
The meaning of the word caricature is exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| fester | to generate pus |