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Word of the Day for Thursday, June 12, 2008hyperbole \hy-PUHR-buh-lee\, noun: Extravagant exaggeration. Oh God, was he a hater of hyperbole? A stickler for accuracy? Even allowing for Wylie's hyperbole, his words seemed to me far removed from reality. Those were the days when I still liked hyperbole, before an excess of real drama killed my taste for the manufactured kind. Hyperbole comes from Greek hyperbole, "excess," from hyperballein, "to exceed," from hyper, "beyond" + ballein, "to throw." | |||||||||
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