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 |
|---|---|
| ardor | an often restless or transitory warmth of feeling |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| practical | of, relating to, or manifested in practice or action : not theoretical or ideal |
| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |