Object

• importance: We are all aware of the marked tendency of human nature to exaggerate the importance of every " find " .

• threat: Why might a newspaper wish to exaggerate a threat, for example?

• significance: He believes that I exaggerate the significance of Wilhelm II's role in initiating the expansion of the German navy in the late 1890s.

• danger: They tend to exaggerate the dangers in their minds.

• difference: Prime Minister: I just wouldn't exaggerate the difference here.

Modifying Another Word

• vastly: They vastly exaggerate their own power to determine the result.

• deliberately: However, the interpretation used in the research paper deliberately exaggerates the health risks.

• somewhat: Trevor Cooper told OUR DOGS The newspaper reports are somewhat exaggerated.

Used with why or when

• what: Why should inspection officers seek to exaggerate what they have found?

Preposition: in

• order: Creation of cultural landscapes in this way often exaggerates in order to communicate difference.

Preposition: by

• medium: The growth is despite public opposition, which the trade group says is exaggerated by the media.