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 |
|---|---|
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| humor | that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous : a funny or amusing quality |
| vie | to strive for superiority : contend |
| cavalcade | a procession (see procession |
| fester | to generate pus |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |
| enunciate | to make a definite or systematic statement of |