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beget

verbCommon GRE wordMore B words

to bring into existence or give rise to

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Beget in a sentence

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Unchecked rumor begets panic faster than any real threat.

Synonyms
producegeneratespawnengender
Antonyms
preventsuppress

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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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banal

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Questions about “beget”

Beget (verb) means to bring into existence or give rise to
Here is beget used in an example sentence: "Unchecked rumor begets panic faster than any real threat."
Common synonyms for beget include produce, generate, spawn, engender.
Antonyms of beget include prevent, suppress.
Beget is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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