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 |
|---|---|
| renege | to go back on a promise or commitment |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| imbue | endow |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| sway | the action or an instance of swaying or of being swayed : an oscillating, fluctuating, or sweeping motion |