An exaggeration

As a part of my English practice I am reading an English text to my conversation-exchange friends.

When I meet an unknown word, I ask to explain me, what it means.

Surely, not a word like "table" but something more complicated.

Yesterday I met the word "exaggerate", its new word for me, and my friend have explained me what it means.

After the explanation, he asked me: for practice,  construct your own sentence with this word.

I said something like this:

- On this Saturday, when I visited my summer house, I met a bear on my plot of land.


He stopped me:
- No, its not an exaggeration, you just added a detail to your story. If you wanted to exaggerate this story you should have said "I met five bears ...."

That made me laugh.

For foreigners if you are in Russia, one bear is still not enough.