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disperse

verbCommon GRE wordMore D words

to scatter or spread over a wide area

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Disperse in a sentence

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Police asked the crowd to disperse once the rally ended.

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Antonyms
gathercollectassemble

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Reviewers noted that the novelist, once known for blank prose, had pared her sentences down until scarcely a superfluous word remained.

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Disperse (verb) means to scatter or spread over a wide area
Here is disperse used in an example sentence: "Police asked the crowd to disperse once the rally ended."
Common synonyms for disperse include scatter, diffuse, dissipate.
Antonyms of disperse include gather, collect, assemble.
Disperse is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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