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 |
|---|---|
| viand | an item of food |
| invoke | to petition for help or support |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| sylvan | one that frequents groves or woods |
| notoriety | the quality or state of being notorious |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |
| malediction | curse |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |