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 |
|---|---|
| demise | death |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| atypical | not typical : irregular |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
| drab | slattern |
| calumny | a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |