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indigenous

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore I words

originating naturally in a particular place; native

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The plant is indigenous to the highlands and grows nowhere else.

Synonyms
nativeaboriginalendemicoriginal
Antonyms
foreignimported

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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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Indigenous (adjective) means originating naturally in a particular place; native
Here is indigenous used in an example sentence: "The plant is indigenous to the highlands and grows nowhere else."
Common synonyms for indigenous include native, aboriginal, endemic, original.
Antonyms of indigenous include foreign, imported.
Indigenous is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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