GRE Word List
HYPERBOLE
extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones")
The meaning of the word hyperbole is extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones").
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| precocious | exceptionally early in development or occurrence |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| adjoin | to add or attach by joining |
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| scintilla | spark |