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abound

verbCommon GRE wordMore A words

to exist or be present in great quantities

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Abound in a sentence

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Rumors about the merger abound throughout the office.

Antonyms
lackwantfail

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Verbal · Text Completion

Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.

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Abound (verb) means to exist or be present in great quantities
Here is abound used in an example sentence: "Rumors about the merger abound throughout the office."
Common synonyms for abound include proliferate, teem, flourish.
Antonyms of abound include lack, want, fail.
Abound is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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