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 |
|---|---|
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch : intangible |
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |
| ploy | escapade |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| parasite | an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host |
| verbalize | to express something in words |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| reek | smoke |