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fledgling

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore F words

new, inexperienced, and just beginning to develop

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Fledgling in a sentence

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The fledgling startup struggled to attract investors in its first year.

Synonyms
nascentbuddingemerging
Antonyms
matureestablishedseasoned

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The professor's lectures were notoriously blank; students often left more puzzled than when they had arrived, unable to follow his tangled chains of reasoning.

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Fledgling (adjective) means new, inexperienced, and just beginning to develop
Here is fledgling used in an example sentence: "The fledgling startup struggled to attract investors in its first year."
Common synonyms for fledgling include nascent, budding, emerging.
Antonyms of fledgling include mature, established, seasoned.
Fledgling is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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