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 |
|---|---|
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| 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 |
| obstetrician | a physician specializing in obstetrics |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| palpable | capable of being touched or felt : tangible |
| conservatory | a greenhouse for growing or displaying plants |
| impregnable | incapable of being taken by assault : unconquerable |
| incompatible | not compatible: such as |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |