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quackery

nounCommon GRE wordMore Q words

the fraudulent pretense of skill or knowledge, especially in medicine

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The so-called cure was pure quackery, exploiting the hopes of the desperately ill.

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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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Quackery (noun) means the fraudulent pretense of skill or knowledge, especially in medicine
Here is quackery used in an example sentence: "The so-called cure was pure quackery, exploiting the hopes of the desperately ill."
Common synonyms for quackery include charlatanism, fraud, humbug.
Quackery is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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