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 |
|---|---|
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| indefatigable | incapable of being fatigued : untiring |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| mauve | a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color |
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |