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negate

verbCommon GRE wordMore N words

to nullify, deny, or make ineffective

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In a sentence

Negate in a sentence

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A single careless error can negate hours of meticulous work.

Synonyms
nullifyinvalidatecancel
Antonyms
affirmconfirmvalidate

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Verbal · Text Completion

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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Negate (verb) means to nullify, deny, or make ineffective
Here is negate used in an example sentence: "A single careless error can negate hours of meticulous work."
Common synonyms for negate include nullify, invalidate, cancel.
Antonyms of negate include affirm, confirm, validate.
Negate is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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