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 |
|---|---|
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| sectarian | of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| plasticity | the quality or state of being plastic |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| reckon | count |
| 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 |
| ejaculation | an act of ejaculating |