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gush

verbCommon GRE wordMore G words

to express enthusiasm in an effusive, exaggerated way

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Reviewers gushed over the debut novel, heaping it with extravagant praise and calling it a masterpiece.

Synonyms
effuseraveenthuse
Antonyms
understaterestrain

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The committee's report was praised for its candor, yet its central recommendation was so blank that administrators could cite it to justify nearly any policy they had already resolved to pursue.

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Gush (verb) means to express enthusiasm in an effusive, exaggerated way
Here is gush used in an example sentence: "Reviewers gushed over the debut novel, heaping it with extravagant praise and calling it a masterpiece."
Common synonyms for gush include effuse, rave, enthuse.
Antonyms of gush include understate, restrain.
Gush is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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