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 |
|---|---|
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| purge | to clear of guilt |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| embrace | to clasp in the arms : hug |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |