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 |
|---|---|
| scuffle | to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| incognito | with one's identity concealed |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |