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moderate

verbCommon GRE wordMore M words

to make or become less extreme or intense

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In a sentence

Moderate in a sentence

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He moderated his tone once he realized he had been shouting.

Synonyms
temperlessensoftencurb
Antonyms
intensifyheightenaggravate

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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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Moderate (verb) means to make or become less extreme or intense
Here is moderate used in an example sentence: "He moderated his tone once he realized he had been shouting."
Common synonyms for moderate include temper, lessen, soften, curb.
Antonyms of moderate include intensify, heighten, aggravate.
Moderate is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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