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daunt

verbCommon GRE wordMore D words

to intimidate or discourage with fear or doubt

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Daunt in a sentence

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The sheer scale of the project daunted even the veteran engineers.

Synonyms
intimidatedisheartendismay
Antonyms
emboldenencouragehearten

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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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Daunt (verb) means to intimidate or discourage with fear or doubt
Here is daunt used in an example sentence: "The sheer scale of the project daunted even the veteran engineers."
Common synonyms for daunt include intimidate, dishearten, dismay.
Antonyms of daunt include embolden, encourage, hearten.
Daunt is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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