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accost

verbCommon GRE wordMore A words

to approach and speak to someone boldly or aggressively

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In a sentence

Accost in a sentence

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A stranger accosted us on the street demanding spare change.

Synonyms
confrontapproachbuttonhole
Antonyms
avoidignoreshun

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Verbal · Text Completion

The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.

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Accost (verb) means to approach and speak to someone boldly or aggressively
Here is accost used in an example sentence: "A stranger accosted us on the street demanding spare change."
Common synonyms for accost include confront, approach, buttonhole.
Antonyms of accost include avoid, ignore, shun.
Accost is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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