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 |
|---|---|
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| recurrent | running or turning back in a direction opposite to a former course |
| disclose | to make known or public |
| pithy | consisting of or abounding in pith |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| paramour | lover |
| imprecation | curse |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |