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    Hyperbole is a figure of speech that deliberately exaggerates or overstates a situation for emphasis or effect. It can be used as an obvious and intentional exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally. Synonyms include aggrandizement, embellishment, and overstatement. An example sentence provided is "He embraced her a thousand times."

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    Hyperbole is a figure of speech that deliberately exaggerates or overstates a situation for emphasis or effect. It can be used as an obvious and intentional exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally. Synonyms include aggrandizement, embellishment, and overstatement. An example sentence provided is "He embraced her a thousand times."

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    Word # Word Connection: Noun Obvious Intentional Exaggeration. An Extravagant Eternity."

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    Hyperbole is a figure of speech that deliberately exaggerates or overstates a situation for emphasis or effect. It can be used as an obvious and intentional exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally. Synonyms include aggrandizement, embellishment, and overstatement. An example sentence provided is "He embraced her a thousand times."

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    Word #

    Word
    Hyperbole

    Connection

    19

    Pronunciation
    [hahy-pur-buh-lee]

    Definition(s) and Part(s) of Speech noun Rhetoric . 1. obvious and intentional exaggeration. 2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as to wait an eternity.

    Synonyms and Antonyms


    Synonyms: aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, e altation, e cess, e tra!agance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hog"ash, hyperbole, inflation, #azz, line$, magnification, mis#udgment, misrepresentation, o!eremphasis, o!erestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, "hopper, yarn %ntonyms: minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment

    Related Words
    Hyperbolism-noun

    Notes and Example Sentences He embraced her a thousand times

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