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.
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| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |
| depreciate | to lower in honor or esteem |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| sensuous | of or relating to the senses or sensible objects |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
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| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
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