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 |
|---|---|
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| lateral | of or relating to the side |
| extradition | the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statute by one authority (such as a state) to another having jurisdiction to try the charge |
| mirage | an optical (see optical |
| duration | continuance in time |
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |