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").
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| genteel | having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| soluble | susceptible of being dissolved in or as if in a liquid and especially water |
| decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
| rumble | to make a low heavy rolling sound |
| meteoric | of or relating to a meteor |