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fraught

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore F words

filled with or causing anxiety, tension, or difficulty

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Fraught in a sentence

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The negotiations were fraught with mutual suspicion from the start.

Synonyms
tenseanxiousladen
Antonyms
calmuntroubledrelaxed

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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.

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Fraught (adjective) means filled with or causing anxiety, tension, or difficulty
Here is fraught used in an example sentence: "The negotiations were fraught with mutual suspicion from the start."
Common synonyms for fraught include tense, anxious, laden.
Antonyms of fraught include calm, untroubled, relaxed.
Fraught is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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