GRE Word List
OVERBLOWN
past the prime of bloom
The meaning of the word overblown is past the prime of bloom.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| cordial | showing or marked by warm and often hearty friendliness, favor, or approval |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| overweening | arrogant |
| grudge | to be unwilling to give or admit : give or allow reluctantly or resentfully |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| adversary | one that contends with, opposes, or resists : an enemy or opponent |
| doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |