to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass; to rival with some degree of success
urge strongly
the undue use of exaggeration or display; the art or science of all specialized literary uses of language in prose or verse including figures of speech
a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, or a freethinker in religious matters
very small quantity or degree
process in which a nuclide is transformed into a different one, usually of a different element