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alchemy

nounCommon GRE wordMore A words

a seemingly magical process of transformation

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Alchemy in a sentence

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Through some directorial alchemy, a dull script became a riveting film.

Synonyms
transformationmagicsorcery
Antonyms

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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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Alchemy (noun) means a seemingly magical process of transformation
Here is alchemy used in an example sentence: "Through some directorial alchemy, a dull script became a riveting film."
Common synonyms for alchemy include transformation, magic, sorcery.
Alchemy is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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