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 |
|---|---|
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| luster | a glow of reflected light : sheen |
| befuddle | to muddle or stupefy with or as if with drink |
| equity | justice according to natural law or right |
| frail | easily led into evil |
| vouch | to supply supporting evidence or testimony |
| purported | reputed |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |