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quaff

verbCommon GRE wordMore Q words

to drink heartily and in large gulps

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Quaff in a sentence

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After the long hike, they quaffed cold water as if they had crossed a desert.

Synonyms
gulpswigguzzle
Antonyms
sipnurse

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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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Quaff (verb) means to drink heartily and in large gulps
Here is quaff used in an example sentence: "After the long hike, they quaffed cold water as if they had crossed a desert."
Common synonyms for quaff include gulp, swig, guzzle.
Antonyms of quaff include sip, nurse.
Quaff is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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