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ethos

nounCommon GRE wordMore E words

the characteristic spirit, values, or beliefs of a community

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Ethos in a sentence

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A spirit of self-reliance lay at the heart of the frontier ethos.

Synonyms
spiritcharactervalues
Antonyms

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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence

The committee dismissed the proposal as blank, pointing out that its projected revenues depended on conditions no economy had ever sustained.

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Ethos (noun) means the characteristic spirit, values, or beliefs of a community
Here is ethos used in an example sentence: "A spirit of self-reliance lay at the heart of the frontier ethos."
Common synonyms for ethos include spirit, character, values.
Ethos is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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