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 |
|---|---|
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| compulsory | mandatory |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |