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olfactory

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore O words

relating to the sense of smell

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Olfactory in a sentence

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The bakery flooded the street with olfactory cues that drew customers inside.

Synonyms
nasalscent-related
Antonyms

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Verbal · Text Completion

Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.

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Olfactory (adjective) means relating to the sense of smell
Here is olfactory used in an example sentence: "The bakery flooded the street with olfactory cues that drew customers inside."
Common synonyms for olfactory include nasal, scent-related.
Olfactory is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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