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 |
|---|---|
| gloss | a surface luster or brightness : shine |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| sober | not intoxicated |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| tightwad | a close or miserly person |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| hindsight | perception of the nature of an event after it has happened |
| facet | any of the definable aspects that make up a subject (as of contemplation) or an object (as of consideration) |
| gnarl | snarl |