GRE Word List
OVERBLOWN
past the prime of bloom
The meaning of the word overblown is past the prime of bloom.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reduce | to draw together or cause to converge : consolidate |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| innate | existing in, belonging to, or determined by factors present in an individual from birth : native |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| placid | serenely free of interruption or disturbance |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| impecunious | having very little or no money usually habitually : penniless |
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