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 |
|---|---|
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| irate | roused to ire |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| incarcerate | to put in prison |
| colossal | of, relating to, or resembling a colossus |
| lout | to bow in respect |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| grapple | the act or an instance of grappling |
| blush | outward appearance : view |