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 |
|---|---|
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
| tentative | not fully worked out or developed |
| dissection | the act or process of dissecting : the state of being dissected |
| dorsal | an ornamental cloth hung behind and above an altar |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| throb | to pulsate or pound with abnormal force or rapidity |