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prattle

verbCommon GRE wordMore P words

to talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way

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Prattle in a sentence

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He prattled on about his vacation while everyone else worked.

Synonyms
babblechatterblatherjabber
Antonyms

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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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Prattle (verb) means to talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way
Here is prattle used in an example sentence: "He prattled on about his vacation while everyone else worked."
Common synonyms for prattle include babble, chatter, blather, jabber.
Prattle is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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