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dovetail

verbCommon GRE wordMore D words

to fit together neatly or work in combination harmoniously

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Dovetail in a sentence

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Her skills in data analysis dovetailed perfectly with the team's needs.

Synonyms
meshharmonizeintegratealign
Antonyms
clashconflictdiverge

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Verbal · Text Completion

Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.

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Dovetail (verb) means to fit together neatly or work in combination harmoniously
Here is dovetail used in an example sentence: "Her skills in data analysis dovetailed perfectly with the team's needs."
Common synonyms for dovetail include mesh, harmonize, integrate, align.
Antonyms of dovetail include clash, conflict, diverge.
Dovetail is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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