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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|---|---|
| minatory | having a menacing quality |
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| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
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| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
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