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hallow

verbCommon GRE wordMore H words

to set apart as holy or treat with great reverence

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The ancient ground was hallowed by generations of pilgrims who had worshipped there.

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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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Hallow (verb) means to set apart as holy or treat with great reverence
Here is hallow used in an example sentence: "The ancient ground was hallowed by generations of pilgrims who had worshipped there."
Common synonyms for hallow include consecrate, sanctify, venerate.
Antonyms of hallow include desecrate, defile.
Hallow is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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