GRE vocabulary：piebald - hyperbole

1.　　piebald

　　　　I love my little piebald pig. He looks like a cow!

　　　　(Spotted with two different  colors (especially black and white))

 

2.　　effulgent

　　　　The stars are effulgent tonight; they're all twinkling so brightly.

　　　　(radiating or as if radiating light)

 

3.　　recant

　　　　The old man recanted all the bad things he had done in his life.

　　　　(to publicly say that you no longer have an opinion or belief that you once had)

 

4.　　wheedle

　　　　The dog is trying to wheedle some bones from his girlfridend.

　　　　(to persuade someone to do something or to give you something by saying nice things)

 

5.　　reciprocate

　　　　I always invite my neighbor over and she reciprocates in the same way.

　　　　(to have (a feeling) for someone who has the same feeling for you)

 

6.　　sloppy 

　　　　Cool - a sloppy woman who won't give me a hard time about my messy apartment.

　　　　(not careful or neat: showing a lack of care, attention, or effort)

 

7.　　hyperbole

　　　　Li Bai always used hyperbole in his poetry, such as "Water falls three thousand feet".

　　　　(extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") )