Skip to content
GREMockTests
GRE vocabulary

distort

verbCommon GRE wordMore D words

to twist out of true shape or meaning

Start a free GRE mock test 39 minutes · free · instant score
In a sentence

Distort in a sentence

Here is an example sentence showing distort in a sentence.

The headline distorted her remarks beyond recognition.

Synonyms
misrepresentwarpskew
Antonyms
clarifyrepresentpreserve

Quick GRE check

Question 1 of 3

3 questions, about 2 minutes. How would you do on the real test?

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.

Select the word that best completes the sentence.

Common questions

Questions about “distort”

Distort (verb) means to twist out of true shape or meaning
Here is distort used in an example sentence: "The headline distorted her remarks beyond recognition."
Common synonyms for distort include misrepresent, warp, skew.
Antonyms of distort include clarify, represent, preserve.
Distort is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

See these words the way the GRE tests them.

Take the free 39-minute GRE Quick Mock Test and meet words like this inside real Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence questions, with a worked solution for every answer.