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slake

verbCommon GRE wordMore S words

to quench or satisfy a thirst or desire

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Slake in a sentence

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A cool spring slaked the hikers' thirst.

Synonyms
quenchsatisfyassuage
Antonyms
intensifyaggravate

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The new intern was so blank that she completed in two days a backlog her predecessor had let pile up for weeks.

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Slake (verb) means to quench or satisfy a thirst or desire
Here is slake used in an example sentence: "A cool spring slaked the hikers' thirst."
Common synonyms for slake include quench, satisfy, assuage.
Antonyms of slake include intensify, aggravate.
Slake is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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