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expatiate

verbCommon GRE wordMore E words

to speak or write at length and in detail on a subject

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Expatiate in a sentence

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Given the chance, he would expatiate on local history for hours.

Antonyms
abbreviatesummarize

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The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.

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Expatiate (verb) means to speak or write at length and in detail on a subject
Here is expatiate used in an example sentence: "Given the chance, he would expatiate on local history for hours."
Common synonyms for expatiate include elaborate, expound, dilate.
Antonyms of expatiate include abbreviate, summarize.
Expatiate is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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