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germinate

verbCommon GRE wordMore G words

to begin to grow or develop

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The idea for the company germinated during a late-night conversation and slowly took shape.

Synonyms
sproutdeveloporiginateburgeon
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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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Germinate (verb) means to begin to grow or develop
Here is germinate used in an example sentence: "The idea for the company germinated during a late-night conversation and slowly took shape."
Common synonyms for germinate include sprout, develop, originate, burgeon.
Antonyms of germinate include wither, die.
Germinate is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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