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 |
|---|---|
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
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| buoyant | having buoyancy |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |
| jargon | the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group |
| conventional | formed by agreement or compact |
| accessible | capable of being reached |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |