Today's Word - Exaggeration Pronunciation and Meaning
Pronunciation: you need to play the video :)
Meaning:
1. To make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is.
2. To magnify beyond the limits of truth; overstate; represent disproportionately.
3. To increase or enlarge abnormally.
4. If you're prone to exaggeration, it means you habitually overstate the truth
Examples:
1. The threat of attack has been greatly exaggerated.
2. I don’t want to exaggerate, but it was a dangerous situation.
3. I shook my head at him, trying to look like a warning, a big frown to exaggerate gravity.
4. Francie's is small, but mirrors cunningly exaggerate the space she has.
5. The tests would therefore exaggerate the importance of the differences.
6. Don't exaggerate her physical virtues, Caspar; it does no good in the end.
7. Street artists often take news stories, rumors and public information and reflect and exaggerate them.
8. This is a partial picture though, and tends to exaggerate the proportion of rural migrants who settled in urban areas.
9. This contains an element of truth but is exaggerated.
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