caricature
B2CEFR level
32/100Rarity: fairly common
NeutralRegister
General noun
A comic depiction that exaggerates distinctive features for ridicule.
The cartoonist reduced the tycoon to a caricature of jowls and cigar smoke.
Law noun
An exaggerated evocation of a work or figure that a copyright exception may exempt from infringement.
The cartoon escaped liability as caricature, its grotesque exaggeration marking it out from the original portrait.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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