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Shard
is a GRE word you need to know.
So is hyperbole. Does it mean:
| easily provoked to anger |
| extravagant exaggeration |
Example Sentences
- Not one more shard of ice need melt to make this a reality.
- The claims that do survive the skeptical scrutiny of the tribe get to take their place in the shard body of scientific knowledge.
- We plummeted down the grade toward a shard of ice that threatened to poke a hole in the umiak skin-or in.
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Word Origin & History
shard
O.E. sceard "fragment, gap," from P.Gmc. *skardas, a pp. from the root of O.E. sceran "to cut" (see shear). Cf. Du. schaard "a flaw, a fragment," Ger. Scharte "a notch," Dan. skaar "chink, potsherd." Meaning "fragment of broken earthenware" developed in late O.E. Fr. écharde
EXPAND"prickle, splinter" is a Gmc. loan-word.
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